'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [‎231v] (467/536)

Route No. \lll{e)~contd.
some 5 or 6 miles, the road eventually leads down on to the
level of the Darreh Gaz plain at a place called Ispain, and
some 4 miles beyond that lies Chapashlu surrounded with
gardens and vineyards. This is probably Chousli on the map.
Ghapashlu contains some 400 families of Turks and Kurds
Turk! is the language spoken by all. The village possesses
some So ploughs of irrigated land and 200 ploughs of unirri-
gated. A plough of irrigated land here is held to be land capable
of taking two Darreh Gaz kharwars of seed, i.e., 1,820 lb. and
the umrngated land one kharwdr. The outturn of irrigated
land here is about ten fold, but that of unirrigated, when there
is a good rainfall, is said to range from 20 to 40 fold
See Route VIII(6), stage 3.
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71
9
82
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MGHAMMADA-
bad.
NAUKHAWDAN
ZAINADALLU..
JAN-I-’AZIz
94
7 m. See Route VHI(£)
stage 4. The tele
graph line stops here.
8 m.^ See Route VIII(c)
| stages 1 and 2. Road
l up a feritle
11 m. valley, practicable
for wheeled trans
port.
12 m. General direction NW
Road lies through
the western portion
of the Darreh Gaz valley, which has a population of from 4,000
to 7,000 people for this portion alone, and is about 14 to 16
miles long, and narrower than the eastern portion. Road
leads to the left through the low hills for the first 5 miles to avoid
broken ndges, and then joins the main valley again at Sang-i-
Surakh. Pass through a succession of villages which are given
by Bruce as Alashirk and Gallaisayyay, close together; Gallai-
chinar; Brajala ; and Manudalan at 9| miles. Half the villages
are inhabited by Turks and half by Kurds. The latter are a
section of the Za’afaranlus of Kuchan, hence the name .of
the district. The valley widens at the band at the village of
unngar or Karuchani at 11 miles. Here there is a good
bouse built of wood and some stone, with a big court yard of
the Russian type. A speciality of the place is the large quantity