"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [و‎‎٥‎٦] (٥٣٠/١١٦)

track, although laden horses get along it. The stream
is 25-30 yds. wide, flowing swiftly. The scarp on the
1. bank is sheer, nowhere supporting even a foot-
track.-
Abrupt ascent leads over a low neck to the valley of the
Yahudi Chai. The river is reached and apparently crossed
just above the pathless chasm through which it runs to
join the JKudbar-i-Shln. Track leads along 1. bank high
up above the stream.
Henjbraka.
Pass Jemajehu (alt. 3,500 ft.), across the valley on r. bank.
The stream is crossed several times as the track ascends a
gorge, narrow in the lower part and gradually becoming
more open.
Hamlet near some rock-chambers ; scattered houses
become numerous.
Pir Hasan. Beyond this the stream makes a deep bend
to E., and an easy ascent leads to the top of a spur from
which a fairly easy descent leads to the
N. boundary of the Ileikan' nahiye.
Nerva (alt. 4,050 ft.). The stream is met again. From
Nerva the road ascends steeply by a fairly easy
track.
Tutun Yaila (alt. 6,000 ft.), descends by an easy track to
a rill, which is followed until it meets a larger stream
from N. which it descends for 1 m. to
Eiri. Some distance below this the valley narrows to a rift
6 to 8 ft. wide : track here consists of steps cut in the rock.
Track again meets the Eudbar-i-Shln and follows its r. bank
for 1^ m. to Bliatunis, descends to the stream by a short
length of stone staircase, and crosses it by a wicker-
bridge, the water, 20 yds. broad in September, being
a deep powerful torrent.
From the bridge the route descends the 1. bank for a short
distance and then turns up the valley of a small water
course to NE., crosses its watershed, descends to the
headwaters of an other stream, ascends steeply, rounds the
head of a valley and descends by a steep but fairly broad
track, with rock-cut steps at intervals, to a brook, from
which an ascent, which gradually becomes steep, leads to
Oramar.