"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد III. ١٩١٧" [‎٢‎٢‎٠] (٤٣٢/٢٢٩)

220
Miles from
Qasr-i-
Shirm
55|
LAND EOUTES
2 m, to SE. The other side of the plain is bounded bv
a ridge called Imam Dlvanza, similar to Jebel Kuskhi
(In front of this ridge a ruined village in 1888.) Track
follows bed of stream. Wheat and barley grown on
plain without irrigation. Continue down plain and cross
one branch of the Darkhaneh Eiver, flowing over
several small channels in a gravelly bed 150 yds. wide •
, y . ^. few P ools of water in dry season some melon
plantations along bed. (The ' main post road' from
Jeaghdad to Mosul was met near here in 1888. Eoad
described in fioute 25 a, m. 107-117 runs on other side of
Kum ou valley.) Cross main bed of Darkhaneh river
flowing in several channels; bed gravelly, 400 vds!
broad. Pass Eski Kufri on low gravelly mounds 2 m
to 1. Cross wide bed of Kufri Su (Chechepan). Good
wheat and barley crops in the plain. Pass another
branch of stream 300 yds. broad. Water in several
channels among banks of shingle most of it led off into
irrigation cuts.
Salahiyeh (Kufri).
EOUTE 34 a
SALAHIYEH (KUFEI)—SULEIMANIYEH (88i m .)
Via Zagirmeh Pass
Authority Military Report on Eastern vol. iii. (1904), Route 105.
! e account of the Route there given dates from May, 1888.)
It is clear that there is much confusion in the mileage of this
route as printed in the Military Repo and in two places at least (see
under m. 54^ and m. 64i below), there is difficulty with regard to
e imes. The total distance in the is brought out
to as much as 200| m. The distances given below are generally-
calculated at the rate of about 3-3^ m. an hour, but at somewhat
_ es some difficult places. The times given in the text
tt : ie ., ltl m erary . are kased on those given in the Report.
p o the Tang i-Kalakh they are calculated from Salahiyeh: beyond
that point from Dolan, Eish Olan, and Temar successively.