"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، يتضمن أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزءًا من فارس" [‎٢‎٢‎٢] (٤٦٦/٢٤١)

E oute N o. 1 — contd.
From MuhammeraJi to Tehran, fyc. —contd.
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Time.
Names of towns, villages, &e.
D istances in
miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Remarks.
It may be described as billy ; the hills, rocky and barren, rising in detached masses and
isolated mounds to a height of from 100' to 1,000' above the general level of the elevated
plateau, are separated by wide valleys and basins (1 to 3 miles broa]), generally communicat
ing with one another by easy gradients, traversing low necks.
Road or track generally good, and capable of being widened into a good cart-road ; gra
dients generally easy ; soil generally gravel.
22nd April 1884.
18
a.m.
5-40
Zaghe
352
basin, beim
Barometer 24*15 v ; thermometer 46°.
By muddy and deep crossing, fords the
Zaghe stream, 10' to 15' wide, 2' deep; and
ascending gradually proceeds up the
Wheat 2'' higrh. A
month hence good
a track only across fields of clay,
pasture is said to cover the valley ; at present it is poor. The basin is from 3 to 4 miles broad.
The hills rising up on every side to a height of 300' to 600' are rounded and grassy, except
towards their summits, which are precipitous and rocky. Snow covers their tops.
The hill scenery to the north-west is picturesque.
The basin is very swampy in parts.
Hueu Eivee ... Descends out of the basin into the
valley of the Hurii.
Descent, steep (|-); can be improved by zigzagging. Soil a stony gravel. The river runs
north-west through the plain of Alishter, then turns west, and below Khoramabad falls into
the Kashgan, which itself falls into the Saimarrah near the Pul-i-Garm.
7-15
Omain (elevation
5,750').
A village of a few mud huts.
Fords the Hurii river, 200' wide, 2' 6"
deep, stony bottom, rapid current. The
ford is a difficult one at times ; one bag
gage animal was carried away and washed some distance down-stream before he was recovered ;
barometer 24 , 35' / (5,750'). The crossing occupied 15 minutes.
8-30
Rain Razan
steeper; a snow-water rill flows parallel to it.
9
A small village at the foot of the hill
"Chewira Shah'*; the track ascending:
gently follows a watercourse.
Ascent, gravelly and broad, becomes
Top of the pass ; barometer 23"3
(7,030'). The hill rises 300' over the
pass, and is snow-topped
The track winds down the hill side an 1 enters a deep basin ; track, clayey, stony, and swampy
on account of the snow water which courses down the hill side. Slope, moderate.
9-55
Kai/a Razan (eleva
tion 6,250').
A village at the foot of the descent >*
barometer 24 , 0' / (6,250').
This village, inhabited by Lurs of the
family of Haidar Khan, gives signs of
some opulence ; rain and snow is said to
have ruined it; a few poplars, 3'' to 6
diameter, grow in its vicinity and round about every village now met with ; otherwise the
country is treeless and produces no firewood. The poplars are used for roof rafters, and build-
ing purposes generally. The villages of the district are of mud ; roofs of tree rafters covered
with mud. Stone is plentiful, but little used {see page 15),
Crosses a stream, 15' to 20' wide, and by a winding road ascends.