"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، بما في ذلك أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزء من فارس" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٨] (٤٧٠/٢٨١)

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Route No. 3 — contd.
From Gulpaigan to Burujird, 8fc. contd.
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Distances in
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Time.
Names of towns, villages, &c.
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Total.
Kemarks.
Except for a few poplars of small size round about the Tillages, the district is treeless
and grows no shrubs.
A.M.
6-35
6-45
wheat 4" high.
7-25
7-33
7-45
8-15
8-30
NtTEGHAN
13
46
The undulations, distant 400 yards on
either hand, rise to a height of 300'.
A road, coming from the left rear,
joins in.
Descends through low undulations; clay
swamp for 200 yards ; all gradients easy;
the road is 8' wide and cut out of the side
of the clayey undulations ; the narrow
bottom of the valley is alone cultivated ;
the hill-sides, often a good wheat-grow
ing soil, is uncultivated; wild flowers
are abundant, especially blue hyacinths ;
Crosses a small stream, and ascending,
undulates ; it is 8' wide ; the steepest
gradients are % to Jjj ; soil, a shaly clay.
Descends a narrow valley ; soil, shale;
cultivation ceases. A break in the line
of undulations, | a mile to the south of
the road, leads up to the snowy range,
5 miles distant.
The valley widens to 300 yards, and its
borderingundulations are from 100' to 300'
high ; snow lay on their summits. A strip
of landborderingthe stream is cultivated.
Coun try becomes hilly, the undulations
rising to 700'.
By gentle gradients the road skirts a
deep valley.
Small village lying in the valley, 600
yards distant.
Barometer 22 , 9" (7,320'). Crosses the
head-waters of the Ab-i-Kum or Kadj
river, 20' to 50' wide, 3' deep ; swift cur
rent ; bouldery bottom. The ford is a
difficult one; one baggage animal was carried down-stream. There is a foot bridge down
stream near the village of Nurghan ; its general direction is 40°.
Halt for 1 hour 45 minutes to recover
the pony washed down-stream 1 mile.
The road, 10' wide and in good order,
undulating, rises gently over the hill;
some of its ascents and descents are
steep, i to -jV
Barometer 2 .’SS" (7,800'). The snowy
range to the eft is 8 miles distant ; its
hills are steep with long gentle skirts.
10-15
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10-55
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