'Persia 1888. From Rishir to Bunder Abbas.' [‎27v] (59/69)

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Number and names of stages
Distances.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
M. F.
M. F.
Rivers and
streams.
Remarks.
and one and a half miles further on the two cisterns and village of Beraemi, close to the
south side of the road. At 13 miles 7 furlongs two large groves of date trees are on either
hand, distant about 50 and 100 yards to north and south respectively. Another 5 furlongs,
and, descending the banks of the river Shur, we cross the dry portion of its bed, covered
with an efforesoence of salt, and consisting of a limy clay of a whitish yellowish colour.
The large date g-roves lying near the foot of Kuh Gishu, are distant about 1| miles to
north. These groves are skirted, on their southern side, by the river Shur. At 15 miles
Kiver Shur
(water brac
kish).
2 furlongs we ford the river ; bed
firm and sandy ; breadth of water,
which is up to a horse’s girths,
about 60 yards* The eastern
e river, composed of a fine, deep sand, and, in places, of sandy clay, slope up,
lance of 200 yards <*r so, from the water’s edge, at an angle of about 7 6 , and then
half-
bridge
banks of the
for the distance
merge in an undulating, and billowy, sandy pkim
There is a substantial stone bridge, with about 33 piers semi-circular arches, and
a-mile down the river to south of the ford. At the time of onr passage, the
happened to be impassable, owing to damage caused by recent floods.
Having passed the ford, we traverse, to the southward, the eastern hank, till we strike
the main road, which cio.sses the river by the above mentioned bridge.
The road then trends eastward, and passes through an outcrop of sandy limestone strata
about 15 feet high, running S. W. by S. and N. E. by N , which here, for some hundreds of
yards, lines, like a rampart, the summit of the eastern hank of the river. At 16 miles 5
furlongs we arrive at the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and two cisterns of Latitnn, all in good repair, and the
latter full of water. Altitude above sea, 22 feet.
Opposite to the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , and lining the south side of the road for about half-a-mile
are date groves, surrounded by high earth bunds forming redoubt-like enclosures. These
date groves extend southward, for at least 2 miles, along the eastern banks of the river.
The scattered hamlet of Latitun, consisting of about 40 mat huts, is situated on a green,
grassy plain, screened from the road and caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). by date plantations, and bears from the
latter S. S. E , distant about three quarters of a mile. ' Here, by native report, drinkable
water is found four fathoms below the surface.
Supplies
Water
Fuel
Cultivation
Grazing
Ca mping-ground
Excepting dates, very scanty.
Good and plentiful, from two cisterns ; also from wells, said by
•natives to be drinkable.
From date trees, otherwise only furze and scanty brushwood.
None observed, except dates.
Fair ; camel fodder apparently plentiful.
Good.
From the ridge of an outcrop of rocky strata hearing from the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). of
Latitun S. E. | S., distant about 250 yards, Tang Abad, a pass through the range Gishu
bears N. N. E. f E. ; and Tang-i Khur, or as it is also styled Tang Kalpurahi, a pass
through the mountain Pal-i Khamir, bears S. S. W. £ W.
29. Chesterneh
14-6
422—7*4
Leave Latitun. General direc
tion E. by S.
To north the range of GIshii is
distant, roughly, about 6 miles.
To south low, gravelly hills, dis
tant miles, extending eastward from the river Shur, approach the road diagonally.
The path lies over a level tract consisting of a whitish limy clay. Advancing 3 furlongs we
clear the date plantations, that had lined the south side of the road for the last half mile.
Another 3 furlongs, and the low hills to south are distant about 300 yards, and so continue.
At 1 mile the road crosses a narrow, deepish gully, containing no water, flow to N.W.,
and, 5 furlongs in advance, is passing among low mounds of whitish limy clay. At 2J miles