"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، بما في ذلك أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزء من فارس" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٠] (٤٧٠/٢٨٤)

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U-^T)
Route No. S—contd.
From Gulpaigan to Burujird, fyc. —contd.
Time.
Distances in
miles.
Names of towns, villages, &e.
P.M.
12-15
12-35
Interme
diate.
Total.
A.M.
... ... Descending through a narrow valley, the
road becomes narrow and swampy, water
coursing down it; snow lay on the valley
sides.
A walled enclosure, on the right side of
the valley, which is here 400' deep. Its
sides are of shale.
Descends steeply, gradient i to into
the deep bed (500') of another stream, a
tributary of the Ivum river ; stream 50'
wide, shallow, stony bed.
Barometer 22'85" (7,500'). The direction of the valley is 40°; the stream flows north
and east. The ascent out of the valley is for 300 yards a mule track with a gradient of £ to ;
it then increases in width, and traverses rounded undulations of shale by moderate gradients/
Eemarks.
1-35
1-50
2-45 '
Chaman-i-S u l t a n
(elevation 7,810').
fuel.
Barometer 22 - 5" (7,910').
Barometer 22 - 3" (8,100'). To the left
the snowy range is 2 or 3 miles distant;
to the right 8 or 10 miles.
Barometer 22 , 4" (8,030'). Descends
gently to cross a shallow stream flowing.
southward ; the road is swampy for some
distance.
A ruined enclosure, the Kal’a-i-Allah-
Kiili, occurs on-a hearing of 290°.
Crosses a small stream flowing south,
and to the west of the Kuh-i-Khanon.
Small and poor village with one good
residence standing at its highest point ;
dun" is stacked everywhere as a winter
It is the first village in the Barbarud district.
Another road can be taken along the skirts of the hills through several ruined villages ;
Chahar Chashmah is the last village in the Feridan district and is inhabited by Armenians.
The whole of this part of the country is known as Jopalag.
By direct and good road passing to the east of Sar-i-Sul hill, Gulpaigan is distant 30
Alternative road. miles. Between Chaman-i-Sultan and IVHan-dasht is the
Watershed. watershed of the rivers Diz, Kum and Zaindarud.
A.M.
*12th May 1SS4.
6-10
Chaman-i-Sultan ...
55
Barometer 22'55''; thermometer 40°.
For the first quarter of a mile out of
the village the road, 10' broad, passes
over a clay soil, and is cut up by irriga
tion channels ; it then improves and
passes over shale.
* In sketch looking north from Chaman-i-Sultan the Kuh-i-Gorkun should be real Goikun or
Khoikwar or Khakkwah {see page 365).