'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎146] (315/524)

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REMARKS X>N A RECENT JOURNEY
blew all day. In July the thermometer was at 96° early in the morn-
ing, and about 110° during the heat of the day ; in short, the place
reminded me much of Sukker in the hot weather, but with this
marked difference, that the temperature during the night at
Khisht is much cooler, and the hot season is not of nearly the same
duration.
22. Quitting the Khisht plain, you pass over a low range, and again
descend upon the Shapour river, skiit it for a mile, and leave it on
your left, winding up a long ravine, which has one sweet, but scant
spring, to the base of a second steep kutal. The sides of this ravine,
as of the hills in general, seem in a state of decay. This second kutal
is not so high, but is quite as steep and as impracticable for carriages as
the first. Arrived at the top of the precipice, the track again lies along
an ascending bowlder-strewn ravine, until you reach the plain and half
ruined serai of Kemarij. This serai may be eleven heavy miles from
that of Khisht. Water and supplies at Kemarij are scant, and the
water very brackish. There is indeed but one passable well. Cara
vans avoid this station for halting. Its air, however, though hot,
seems to me preferable to that of Khisht.
23. Leaving Kemarij the road runs the length of the plain about
one fursac, then enters a long and difficult defile with precipitous rocky
sides. The pass through these rocks is as darksome and dreary as if
to the region of shadows it carried. But enter ! a sweet laughing
valley is here, where the spring with the autumn is married. Emerg
ing you come again on the Shapour river, and can trace its course to
the cleft in the hills, where the ancient fort and rock sculptures of
Sapor and the Emperor Valerian are still visible.
24. Leaving the river on your left, and treading Eastward, you open
the Kauzeroon plain, pass through a ruinous village with good water,
named Dirriz, and thence after two fursacs, reach the town of Kauze
roon. The entire distance from Kemarij to Kauzeroon may be 17
miles, or rather more. The road to Shapour branches off to Dirriz.
25. Kauzeroon is the principal town and a sort of half-way point
between Bushireand Shirauz. It may contain about 3,000 inhabitants,
and is tne head quarters of the muleteers. Drinkable water is sufficient
ly abundant, and the surrounding plain tolerably cultivated. In the
suburbs of the town are three or four fine gardens or groves of
it