"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، يتضمن أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزءًا من فارس" [‎٢‎٦‎٩] (٤٦٦/٣٠٨)

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Time.
Names of towns, villages, &c
D istances in
miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Eemarks.
Prom Pul-i-Zaman Khan to Deh-i-Knrd was said to be 3 farsakhs
GeneralEemarks.-Thz road throughout the stage is of a hard surface, 6' to 10' wide
except when otherwise noted. ' ^
21st May 1884,
A.M.
5-45
AB-PUNI
41
Barometer 22*95 // ; thermometer 48°.
Road, a hard and broad track, descends
a shallow stony ravine; the country is
barren j no grass or trees grow ; rocky hills
crop up here and there; soil, sandy and
stony.
To the left low undulations extend to a range of hills about 10 miles distant.
7-10
7-35
8-15
■30
HuSAINABiD
Small village, with a walled fruit garden,
watered by a small stream, along which
wheat is cultivated. There is a range of
high undulations 2 miles to the right.
Country, gently undulating; slopes
gradually downward ; soil shaly.
A small enclosure or kal'a ; on a bearing
of 75° are the village and town of Ismia-
jun and Ariin, surrounded by fruit gar-
i f u i oaa i dens ' a]1 walled. The town of Tiriin has a
diameter of about 1,200 paces, and contains 450 houses. It is surrounded by well preserved
walls nanked by towers, and is the head-quarters of the district containing 50 villages Ivioo*
between Najafabad and Dumbana. o J &
Crosses a small stream.
9-5
Passes the east end of the gardens refer
red to and round a high undulation ; soil,
sandy and^ stony ; the road, a broad,
80' track, joins in with the mainlsfahan-
Gulpaigan road.
The hills to the right are 2 miles distant, and intervening is a barren plain.
9-22
6-35
AziZiBlD
Village, lying 1J miles to the right half
front, surrounded by fruit gardens.
Crosses a plentiful stream 3' broad.
The hills to the left are now 2 to 2J-
miles distant, and those to the right 3 to
4 miles. Between them lies a barren plain
i. i , . j studded with a few gardens, and out of
wnich rocky undulations crop up here and there.
Road skirts a stretch of cultivation consisting of wheat, fruit trees, and poplars. The
wheat is from 2' to 3' high and in ear.
--- --- The hills, 2 miles distant to the left,
look to have a considerable depth, and to
be composed of a number of detached,
barren, rocky hills rising 1,000' over the
plain.