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From Muhawmerah to Tehran, fyc. —contd.
S 6 d
, o ci
as
26
Time.
p.m.
3-30
Names of towns, villages, &c.
distahtces in"
miles.
Interme
diate.
Anetbbg (elevation
4,910').
Total.
Eemarks.
509 Small village. Barometer 25-15". Tlie
Katkhuda of the village accommodates
travellers in his fairly commodious and
comfortable 'quarters ; water plentiful and good from a copious stream.
General Bemarlks.—RoaA good and broad (this stage) and offers no difficulties, except
wbere noted, on tbis side of Eaugird and for the last li miles ; gradients, easy.
1st JULay 1884,
Anetbeg 509 ... Barometer 25*1^; thermometer 64. c
Ascends the cultivated valley; soil,
stony.
Descending gently, crosses a stony un
cultivated plain growing a poor thorn
to the southward the hills are 10 to 15 miles distant.
26
a.m.
4-55
5-5
scrub
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Koad, broad; surface, hard ; it zigzags to avoid a ravine, 30 deep.
6-25
7-30
Descends into the ravine and runs along
its bed.
Ascends out of the ravine. No water
met with since leaving the Anetheg vallej.
q/ T T?/"i"w 8 517 Two serais surrounded by walls, all of.
mud; a garden and a few fields of wheat
irrigated by a plentiful stream is the
only cultivation here. This is generally
made the stage by caravans, i.e., the usual stages are Ibrahimabad, 24 miles ; Raugird, 23 miles;
S41 XlssLt 1 gtn%tndukti!!g plain, barren and stony, affording a poor grazing for camels.
All camels seen were of a poor size and physique. No ^^Vkan^nTmined e.closure.
Barometer 26-0" (3,980'); temperature,
83 p . The bills to the north are 3 to 4
miles distant.
A hot wind blowing.
Crosses a dry watercourse 200 wide.
Beyond it is a kanat 15' deep, and an
abambar (underground cistern reached
by steps) of clear cool water.
8-20
*-35
9-45
11 ok t Passes by gentle gradient (3 to o j
over the undulation bounding the plain to the east, and descends rolb 6f
1 mile in diameter, bordered by cliffs presenting the appeaa-ance of almost veitica^ ^
clay in juxtaposition, of a variegated red and yellow colour ; f et ^ ehed ,° 0 , ; k into the
yellow clays also occur. The bills to the west of the Ab-i-Kbonsai beie smK m
plain ; beyond the river they are 20 to 30 miles distant.
The basin undulates; the road is stony,
noon.
12
p.m.
12-10
but good and 40' wide.
the
Kanat of brachish water; skirts
left bank of the Ab -i -Khonsar, a rapia
muddy stream, 60'.to 100 nf day.
deep bed between steep banks
m a