'Persia 1888. From Rishir to Bunder Abbas.' [‎12v] (29/69)

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ROUTE No.
-contrl.
Distances.
Number and names of staff's.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rivers and
streams.
Remarks-
M. F.
M. F.
...
• • •
Stream Hanut
ie banks.
Nil.
Good.
Very scanty.
6 furlongs. Up this pass we continue for 5 furlongs, when the ascent becomes most difficult,
and continues so for about a furlong, the road, almost unrideable/ passing over rocks piled up,
and strata upturned. At 10 miles 6 furlongs we attain the summit of the pass Gardineh
i* a ..o.iul v.if.p is resumed, and the road now traverses a grassy vale, about 200
to 300 yards broad, bordered by
very low hills. At 11 miles 1
furlong the rivulet Hanut, good
water running in bed, flow from
S. to N. Bivouac on t
Supplies
Water
Fuel
Cultivation
Grazing
Camping ground ...
12. Kaaleh S4GEH 11—6 167—4 Leave bivouac. General direc
tion E. by S. i S., and cross the
rivulet Hanut. The road conti-
nues through the grassy vale oh
top of the plateau. At half a mile the road ascends a pass, called “ Shakaroki,” along the dry
rocky bed of a torrent. At 7 furlongs the road traverses, for half a mile, a fairly level
plateau between low hills. The rate then becomes 1 mile 6 furlongs per hour, and enterino’ a
rough and difficult pass, called “ Tang-i Kil,” we descend for half a mile, and finally,
ascending by a short but steep and rocky path, we enter upon a broad and generally smooth
and grassy valley, dotted with kanar bush and small shrubs, and sloping gently to ncrth-east.
The usual rate of travelling is now resumed. At 5 miles 2 furlongs the 1-oad crosses a dry
nullah, called “ Zur,” flow^to north, east banks precipitous, and 2 miles 6 furlono-s further on
another, called “ Obashun,” bed dry, about 15 yards broad, flow northerly. At 1J miles 6 fur
longs the village of Kaaleh Sageh. Many houses in ruins ; 7() to 80 onlv inhabited, built of
mud and stone, surrounding a fort of similar construction. Date trees fire scattered around
about the village, and among the ruins. At the south-east end of the village
irrigation well, water good for drinking, but very slightly brackish.
Inconsiderable.
Plentiful, but slightly brackish.
Moderate from kanar and tamarisk bush
Fair.
Good.
Good.
Nil.
G ood.
Good.
11-6
167-4
mlf a mile
the road £
is a
Supplies
Water
Fuel
Cultivation
Grazing
Campi n g-grou nd
13. Behristan
mg
Stream Kan a
10 6 178—2 (brackish
wa ter).
tniongli Holds of wliGcit, bcirloy* find tobacco, succoodo*
Leave Kaaleh Sageh.
direction E. by S. J S. ^ s
( road, about 40 feet broad, pass
bv grassy expanses, leads ns
at one m,le S1X furlong,, to a small stream named “ Kana,” bed about 20 to 30 feet broad
TvZk W r ll' } T h ’ t, feW '"t* 168 dee P’ banks sbelvino- flow from
S. E. to N. W. Crossing this stream the road enters the village of Asir situated on the
northern side of the valley, near the foot of the range Kuh ZaDmi ATfi i u
2 097 feet. The town containing about 150 iAabfted housesid a popuktn Ibhl
of 600, is coveied on the south-west side by the ruins of old houses. The fort of Ash i
large and substantially hmlt of stone, with towers at the four corners There are 12
cisterns near the foot of Kuh Zalemi, immediately to north of the town Of these four are
fit to hold water, but, at the present time, two only are in use. The wAe. frA tlle wells
large
General
A good