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tlie Illyats destroy most of the young trees. Oaks cease to grow a few miles
to the eastward of Mai Amir.
In a few years the timber within the hills must be exhausted as forest
operations are unknown [see pages 12, 297).
Between Dupulan, elevated 5,030 feet, and Hilisat the mountains are
Dupulan to Hilebat. s ^ ee P an ^ and consist of a succession of parallel
ridges (3) having a general north-west and south-east
direction, spurs of the Arman and Gerah mountains; the separating valleys
are deep and narrow {see page 318) : the highest ridge crossed, the water-
parting, a saddle between the Gerah and Arman mountains, of an altitude of
about 12,000 feet, is 7,850 feet high and the deepest valley 1,800 feet deep.
The scenery is picturesque; the lofty peak of the Kuh-i-Kellar lies to the
north-west; the oaks are the finest to be found in the hills, being 40 feet high
Bird and animal life. and 14 yards in girth ; jays swarm in the oak woods,
otherwise bird and animal life may be said to be non-
existant; it is so rare [see pages 214, 266).
Ibex and red legged partridge are found about Deh-diz. Captain Wells
remarks :
At Mai Amir {i e., nearing the plains and in the low hills) we began to see birds such
as black and white kingfishers, francolin, spur winged plovers,—common Western Asian and
Levantine birds, straggling as far as India; the Haft-bhai, Chattarhoea Ruttoni, &c., &c.
Among the Bakhtiari hills, though birds are not plentiful, we found choughs ravens
crows, magpies, jays, with more white in their wings than the English variety ; the green and
the St. Johanms woodpeckers, nuthatches, the grey smoky-coloured thrush, larks chaffinches
and common buntings.
Ibex, markhor and bears, as well as wild sheep, are found in the mountains.
Wolves, hyenas, foxes, jackals are also found.
Kice is grown at Hilisat. Fine plane trees grow in the valley The alti
Hilisat to the Kanin at tude f ^ Stream is t'f 00 ^ ai ' e ^
God-lialatak. remarkable size, some 3^ inches long; thev are col-'
. lected and ground into flour. Between Hilisat and
Uen-diz the mountains retain their rugged and steep character as far as the
Bazuft stream, their average elevation being 6,750 feet; their separating
valleys are, however, less deep.
The altitude of the bed of the Bazuft stream is 3,080 feet. The descent into
its bed is exceedingly rough and practicable only to mules and led Persian
horses. Between the Bazuft stream and the crossing of the Karun (altitude
2,480 feet) the hill to the eastward of Deh-diz is from 6,000 to 7 000 feet
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Thus it will be seen that the highest ranges of mountains are massed to
gether between the plain or basin of Ardal on the east and that of Mai Amir on
the west, a distance of 117 miles, and that the nucleus of this mass is formed
V the^Kuh-i-Kaiah Kuh-i-Sabz, Kuh-i-Mungasht on the east and the
Kulw-Zerah Kuh-i-Dmar, and Kuh-i-Gerah on the west. The continuation
ot the same backbone is met with on the line from Ardal to Behbahan and i'«
formed by the Kuh-i-Dina, Kuh-i-Nil and intervening hills, a width of'in
miles on a bee-line.
. /r a description of the mouniainous fhnf
JuU described, page 68 to page 81, i.e., KaUr-Kuh,
Tman, Zarda-Kuh, to the high level vall
' T Aainciarud, bounding the main range o
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