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mounted and armed with rifles. Twenty/ofldddws are cultivated and there
are gardens, 50 cattle and 100 sheep and goats. (Pefsian Gulf Gazetteer,
1908.)
CHILHASH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A torrent rising from the Kuh-i-Rang Mountain and watering the village
of Pir Sar Sahid {vide this Gazetteer).
CHIL GAZI ’AJAM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, 7 miles west of Deh
Kuhneh. It contains 80 houses inhabited by Persians, who grow dates,
wheat and barley, and own 100 donkeys.—(Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHIL GAZl ’ARAB.— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shabankareh district of Ears, south-west of Deh Kuhneh.
It contains 80 houses inhabited by a tribe who claim to be Jammaleh
from Central Arabia, and who speak Arahic as well as Persian. The
villagers grow wheat and barley, and own some 20 horses and 100 donkeys.
—{Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHILNU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting place, 21 miles from Uganuri (?) on the Shushtar Isfahap
road, via Bazuft and Qehfarukh.— {Mackenzie.)
CHIMISHK (CHEMESK)— Lat. 38° 19'N. Valley, 0 465'.
Long. 48° 29' (Gorge, 5,200'.
A valley, stream and gorge in Khuzistan between Nasrabad and Shah-
imShah, on the Dizfui-Khurramabad road. The ruins of a post-house
stand on a hill in this valley, where pasture is excellent but timber scarce.
The rivers which water this valley are the Rigan and Kapkan, which meet,
in the Chimishk gorge and form the Taj in river, which eventually falls in-?
to the Kashgan.— {Schindler.)
Bell, 19th April 1884, writes :—-
‘‘ Erom Kuh-i-Ghazal the road from Dizful to Khurramabad by easy
gradients (a few of a) skirt the Chimishk stream flowing west ; rapid, 30'
wide, 2' 6" deep ; stony bottom ; its valley, 200 yards wide, is shut in by
steep cliffs of gypsum and red clay, 200 feet high : stunted trees grow in
its bed (4,640 feet).
“ The valley opens out and the hills to the south lower in height; good
pasture ; barometer 25 , 25" (4,840 feet). There is room for a large camp
in this now broad valley.
‘ ‘ The Chimishk stream forces its way through a narrow gorge in the
Kuh-i-Ghazal. The track here crosses it, and, ascending by an easy gra
dient, passes over the range ; the ford is a difficult one. A road also goes,
through the Chimishk gorge, but, being at the time blocked by the flocks
of the Iliats it was not taken. Barometer at top of pass 24‘9" (5,280.
feet.)
“ The difficult, swampy and stony descent into the Chimishk valley
^an be readily improved.