"إضافات إلى دليل بلاد فارس، المجلدات II إلى IV." [و‎‎٤‎٥] (٣٧٠/٨٩)

9
[Picot, i894.)
MARAKAND. Vul. II, page 34 6 .
A large village of Azarbaijan of 600 houses, situated near the junction
of the Ag Chai and Kotur Chai rivers, in an enclosed valley on a rich soil
where fine crops of wheat, barley and rice are raised. The people are more
than usually well off and possess many sheep and goats. They are well
armed and are gradually getting Berdankers or Martinis. On the south is
a precipitous hill, about 1 , 000 ' high on the eastern front of which is a re
markable cave. The cliff is difficult of access, but along its front runs a ledo- e
to which a zig-zag path leads. The ledge, 2 to 3 feet wide, leads horizontiTl-
• ly to the mouth of a tunnel which, after a short distance, opens into a cavern
with a wide fissure in its front face. This fissure 30' high has been built-
up with masonry, and a breastwork raised to enable men^to fire over the
aperture. The foot of the cliff is about 80 yards below. Water is stored in
a rock-cut basin, and a narrow aperture gives out on a break-neck path
leading to the mountain above. The cave commands the Evoglu-Julfa road.
Gold has been found in the plain near by, but not in paying quantities.
During flood time (in spring) the river Hoods the lower put ol ! the valley
and the road to Karaziadin has to take the hill sides. In ordinary dry
weatner, with the river at its usual level, carriages can pass fairlv easily,
{Picot, 1894.)
KARAZIADIN. Elev. 2,920'. Vol. 11, page 220 .
The valley is separated from that of Khoi by a high range, over which
a rough carriage road passes. The valley is about 10 miles long by 6 wide,
is well watered by the AgChai and possesses several large villages, some of
which number 600 houses. The land is rich and produces excellent crops.
It is separated from the Aras valley on the north by a low watershed. In the
village itself, which is the principal one of the valley, are 600 houses.
[Pi cot, 1894.)
HAJILAR. Elev. 2,850'. Vol. II, page 131.
A village in Azarbaijan situated at the commencement of the Kara
ziadin plain about half way to Marakand.
{Picot, 1894.)
AG-CHAI. v i it 7
V o). II, page 7.
A river of Azarbaijan, which rising in the mountains above Zohrabad in
the west, flows to Marakand where it is joined by the Kizil Chai and Zilbir
Chai, and thence flows north to the Aras. At about 22 ^ miles below Zohrabad
the river in November was 20'wide and only a few inches deep, but in spring
there is much water and the crossing is dangerous.
{Picot, November 1894.)
AJICHAI ( on AG-r-CHAI). Vol. II, page 1 1 .
The waters first become bitter in passing through the salt plain, 20 miles
north-west of Tabriz. & 1 ’