"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، يتضمن أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزءًا من فارس" [‎٢‎٦‎٣] (٤٦٦/٣٠٠)

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The valley is well cultivated and produces excellent crops of cereals ; its pasture, as
well as that of the neighbouring hills to the south-west, is very fine. The district is treeless
and grows no shrubs. It is a Bakhtian village of 500 to 600 inhabitants ; they are
Deh -Neshins. The iliyats sow in both the garmsir and sard sir, i.e., both in this neigh
bourhood and that of Shustar; they spend five months of the year here, i.e., from June to
November, and five months about Shustar ; in moving between the two places they spend
two months [seepage 82).
Distances,
Ali-Kiih on the Isfahan-Shiistar road can be reached in two stages, i.e.,—
Farsakhs.
.,. 3
... 5 {seepage 279)\
1. Dima
2. Ali-Kuh
or in 3 stages.
1. Dima
2. Shorab
3. Ali-Kuh
3
At present the road is closed by snow; it will be passable one month hence.
The hilly country under the Kiih-i-Zard and between it and Kuh-i-Jehanbin in the month
of June is covered with luxuriant pasture and dotted with the tents of the Bakhtian Iliyats
and covered with their flocks.
From Dima, Deh-i-Kurd is reached via Baba-Haidar, distant 3 farsakhs from it. Baba-
Haidar is distant 7 farsakhs via Dima. There is a small village there where supplies are pro
curable. Baba-Haidar can also be reached via Sulaigan or Sudijan, from which it is dis
tant 5 farsakhs. From Baba-Haidar, Deh-i-Chashmah, the source of the Karun, is 4 farsakhs
distant ; an intermediate stage is Imamzada Gushahr, distant 2 farsakhs from either.
From Baba-Haidar to Chalistur or Chalucha or Chulcha is 2| farsakhs and from thence to
Dast-i-Nau, 4 farsakhs {see pages 279 to 284).
Road to Shustar.
At this season of the year the only way of reaching any point on the Isfahan, Shustar
road is ma the bridge Pul-i-Zaman-Khan, distant 2 long stages of 5 or 6 farsakhs each
via. Derkiin (see pages 251, 26S).
From Baba-Haidar to Shiistar, a Hajji, who had travelled the road, stated that he did so
by the stages below ;—
JBdhd-Uaidar—
Biragiin
Bazuft
Dor Baland
Mai-Amir
Saiyid Sorlab
Girdana
Shustar
Farsakhs.
4 {see page 279).
6
6 (a high hill).
6
6
6
6
TV roa( l passes from Bazuft to Mai-Amir crossing the Ab-i-Kuran and is an
iyat track. The distances given cannot be reliei on {see page 281). By 6 farsakhs the
W apparently meant a very long days' journey.