"الطرق في بلاد فارس. القسم III" [و‎‎٢‎٠‎٦] (٧٣٩/٤١٦)

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No. 177 — contd.
Sakiz to Karmanshah, via ShlaJch, Rengrazal, fyc.
No.
distances,
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
bUH-LKKB.
s
18|
19i
22i
24^
153
154
156|
158|
It is fairly well cultivated, and in the centre is a
village of 50 huts called Lain, a miserable looking
place. Track trends off to the right.
Reach summit of rounded ridge, an easy clay track,
and commence a very gradual descent. This is
the highest point of this route and is the pass of
Mil-a-Merwara. Elev. 6,5lO'.
Pass the head of a wide basin, 2 miles in diameter,
to the south-east, running up towards a hio-h
conical hill. At the mouth of this valley, f mile
to the left of the road, is the village of Merwara,
near a large spring, surrounded by an orchard
and a large stretch of cultivation.
A stream flows from Merwara into the Kamirau
plain.
Descend a broad track with an easy gradient,
skirting the right bank of a ravine in which is a
large stream in a rocky bed. Temp. 93°. Elev
6,195'.
Some granite boulders passed, strewn about on a
poor clay soil. The hillsides are steep, rounded
and perfectly bare, excepting the low prickly
shrub from which gum tragacanth is obtained.
There is abundance of grass in the spring time ;
but it is now burnt up.
Pass several small springs on the hill slopes. A
few low trees, oleanders, and other shrubs border
the stream bank.
The V-shaped ravine traversed opens out with
wider and flatter undulations on either side.
Cotton, wheat, and maize cultivated on thesa
spurs.
Pass Banjinna, a village of 30 huts, on the left
bank of the stream.
Reach the lower outliers of the range, emerging
on wide undulating plain and cross easy ford to
left bank of stream. Valley 400 to 500 yards
wide, well cultivated. Track easy, a 15'to 20'
ledge in the hill-side, A valley, J mile wide, joins
in from the north-west. Elev. 5,620'.
Pass through a village of 40 huts called Biar.
8
Kamtraic
6,195'.
26i
161
Halt in Kamiran, a village of 150 houses, with &
small orchard by the stream bank. Temp. 91°.
Water-supply excellent from two large springs.
There is a fortified square building at one end of
the village. ^ There are two water-mills close
above the village on a canal. Supplies easily
procurable. The inhabitants are Kurds in all the
villages passed in last stage.