‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [‎115r] (234/722)

Stack says that Jdlfa really is a separate village, south of the city of
Isfahan, and distant from it nearly 3 miles. The Zaindarud flows between,
and is crossed by four or five stone bridges. One new bridge is an especially
fine structure, and would be considered a well-built bridge in England. The
bridge farthest down stream is at once a bridge and a dam. The water
passes through its arches in a small cascade, and the lake-like expanse of
the river above is decidedly pretty. The breadth of the river is about an
average of 60 yards. The water is of a pale-blue colour and deep enough
to be unfordible. The banks are low and lined with garden, willows, and
water meadows. Channels taken off higher up stream Bow through the
lanes of Julfa between rows of pollard, mulberries, and elms. On either side
of the watercourses are the dead mud-plastered walls of houses, varied
here and there with shops. The river bed is occupied by colonies of
dyers, and anchored out in the stream are carpets being washed.
The village itself is quiet and orderly with neat houses and straight
streets; but the filth of these streets is intolerable, the watercourses before-
mentioned serving to drain the houses and water the gardens.
Between the houses and the watercourses a narrow path serves for a road.
The whole lane is not more than 20 feet broad, the pathway not more
than 6 or 8. Julfa lies at the bottom of the fooL-slope of the hills
which enclose the plateau of Isfahan on the south. From the village walls
to the foot of the hills is only 3 miles. They rise 1,000 feet, and are bare
brown masses of rock, not devoid of a certain picturesqueness.-— (Usher,
¥ layer, Stock.')
J CLEAN— Lat. 37° 25' 0°, Long. 58* \T 0" ; Elev.
A village in Kurdish Khurasan, in the district of Daraghaz, about 15
miles north-east of Muham idabad. It is said to have been a Christian village,
and a mound near is still called Tepe Kalissa, or the “Church mound/’
Tradition declares that formerly a Christian church was here situated, and
that it and the Christian village of Julfan were destroyed by Jenghiz Khan
in the 13th century. It is, however, improbable that there should have
been a Christian village here as late as this date.— (Stewart.)
JTJ LGAH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
A village in the Zawah buluk of the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khura
san.— (Bellew.)
JULGAH-I-BAGASTHAN— Lat. , Long. ^ ; Elev.
A valley in Khurasan, at the foot of the Kuh-i-Laki and Kuh-i-Siah, between
Dasht-i-Piaz and Kahk. The name means the valley of gardens; an ap
pellation evidently derived from the fertility of the soil.— (Rozario.)
JCLGAH-I-BATAU—Lat. , Long. ^ ^ ; Elev. ' •
A plain in Khurasan, about 27 miles from Nfshapur, on the road to Madan
by the village of Pahnai.— (Napier.)
JtJLGlH-I-BlRJlNB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
The name given to the combined valleys of Mud and Birjand.— (Rozario)
JCLGAH-I-BOSTAM. . -
The tract of country in the Shahrud province that is drained by the Shahrud
river. It is a fine alluvial tract, with many large villages and much cultiva
tion. It lies 4 miles to the east of Bustan. It is the western end of a fine
level plain, with a width of from 14 to 20 miles, terminating to the west in
the valleys of the Shah Kuh, and to the east merging into the open plain