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PUL—PUL
PUL-I-SAFlD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A narrow neck of level ground in Ears, where the Sar-i-Ab-i-Siah river
merges into the Talaspid plain.— {Wells.)
PUL-I-SHAHPUR— Lat. Long. Elev.
Long.
Elev.
An old bridge in the Tang-i-Dulabcheh ; a few miles from Khurram-
abad in Luristan.— {Schindler.)
PUL-I-SHALU— Lat. 31° 47' N.; Long. 50° 12' E.; Elev.
The local name of the bridge over the Karun, which is known to Euro
peans as Qudar-i-Balutak. Gudar-i-Balutak is really 4 miles above the
bridge, and at that point the river was formerly forded. At the bridge
the Khrun flows between perpendicular cliffs, and the span of the bridge
about 43 yards, gives the unalterable breadth of the river at that point.
There is a ccirardiiserai here, situated on an inconvenient platform about
half-way up to the plateau from the river. .
Retail selling price per Shahi man of 13 lbs.; in October and November
1906, barley 1-50 krdns, bhusa \25 Icrdn. — {Lorimer, 1906.)
PUL-I-SHIKAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined village, 10^ miles north of Kushk-i-Zard, on the north bank of
the Kur river, which is here known locally as the Shikan. The river 10
to 12 yards wide, is here crossed diagonally by a ford which was 3' deep
at its deepest part in May.— {Grahame, 1908.)
PUL-I-TANG— Lat. 32° 49’ N.; Long. 48° 14' E.; Elev. 1,880'.
A bridge across the Saidmarreh river a few miles above its junction with
Ab-i-Zal. The river here runs in a narrow chasm some 12 ' in breadth
and 50' or 60' (not 150') deep, the sides of which are fantastically honey-com
bed by the action of the water, which has worn this bed for itself The bridge
is used by nomads moving between Pusht-i-Kuh and Luristan, particularly
by the Bairanwand. Rawlinson mentions having seen a Kurd jump across
this chasm, quite an easy feat. Some believe it to have been by this
bridge that Antigonus passed the Saidmarreh, in his retreat from Badaka
across the mountains into Media; but the present bridge is not an ancient
structure: within the memory of living man only a temporary structure
existed, though there may have been more ancient stone bridges,—
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has built a pleasant little summer house of 6 rooms overhanging the river.
There are 450 houses and 2,000 inhabitants.
The bridge, which here spans the Zipdeh Rud, is of brick with stone piers,
rising somewhat towards the left bank. The clay banks are low, and the
river, except in flood, is merely a wide ditch.— {Preece.)
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A village, 9 miles from Jnlfa, situated on the left bank of the Zindeh Rud.
The village is the property of His Royal Highness the Zall-us-Sultan, who