"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [ظ‎‎٢‎٩‎٦] (٧٠٦/٥٩٧)

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SIZ—SUF
SIZDEH KHIRAN TANG (or pass of)—E lev. 5,600' to 5,290'.
Is traversed by road from Kirmanshah to Kandula, on emerging from
the Zalu Ab valley. The pass is 4f miles in length and runs north-north
west. The path through it follows up the banks of, and frequently crosses,
a bouldery torrent bed which contains water only after the snow in winter has
commenced to melt, or during heavy rain. The sides of the pass slope
steeply up to mountain cliffs 1,500 feet above and | mile apart: the slopes
are grassy and hold thorn and other small trees and bushes. About half
way through the sides slope more gently, and the cliffs recede to one mile
apart. The pass emerges into the valley of Sahghar. There is no water.
The cliffs cannot be crowned or the pass turned : practicable for laden ani
mals and could be sufficiently improved to be traversed by artillery.—
{Burton.)
Stj" or SUH or SOH— Lat. 33° 26' 8". Elev. 7,560'.
A large village of about 300 houses situated in a fertile valley in the
Barz Bud district of Natanz. It is divided into upper and lower So, each
possessing a walled-in Kaleh, flanked by towers. It has a public bath, one
large and one small mosque, and a large caravansarai which was erected
at the expense of Mirza Abul Qasim, the Persian Prime Minister, strangl
ed in 1835 at Tehran. Belonging to the upper village and some little dis
tance to the north-east of it, under a blue-tiled dome near a fine spring, are
some tombs. The water supply of the village is plentiful from a little
stream rising some miles to the north of it, which flows to the Murcheh
Khui ^Plain. There are some good pear orchards, and large fields of
wheat and barley. There is an office of the Indo-European telegraph
company here, for administration purposes only. Mean temperatures at So
1885. ]
January 31° October
February 32° November
March 43° December
April 47°
56.
1887.
1888.
55° January
27°
Jenuary
31°
46° February
30°
February
33°
34° March
40°
March
43°
October
55°
November
46°
{Schindler.)
sObhan— '
A village 11 miles south-west of Damghan to the right of the road to
F rat.— {Schindler.)
StM— Elev. 3,480*.
^ A large Turkish village of 150 houses, surrounded by trees and orchards
situated in north-western Azarbaljan, about 20 miles south-east of Maku,
—{Picot, 1894.)
SEFIAN (1)—
A small and poor village of Azarbaijan, 24 miles north-west of Tabriz,
on the road to Khoi. It is surrounded by a few gardens, and has plenty of
water.—( Ussher; Champain.)