"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد III. ١٩١٧" [‎٢‎٥‎١] (٤٣٢/٢٦٠)

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EOUTES 38, 39
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Summit of spur (alt. 1,760 ft.). Fine view of plain of
Kaniyeh and Marga.
Turbeh, 100 well-built houses. Water from a large spring.
Eich gravelly soil; wheat cultivation and orchards.
Pai Euh, large village in orchards and vineyards, on
opposite bank of the Zab where it enters the Tang-i-
Sheikh Ismail.
Easy broad track with gradual descent.
Marga, 200 houses on the lower spurs of Kurkur Dagh
is 10 m. to the E. It is the seat of a Mudir under
Qal'ah Dlzeh. Large mound and ruins in plain below it.
Koute to Banah (48 m.), difficult up to Banah Su.
Eeach plain, the river 1 m. to r. Good grass; soil a rich
loam. No trees.
Cross small stream from 1.
Chailasura, 30 huts, ^ m. distant on 1. bank of the
Lesser Zab, here 150-200 yds. wide with rapid current.
Track skirts the river.
Broad track, trending away from the river. Orchards and
cultivation on the upper slopes of the Kutsrut Dagh.
Low oak scrub.
Ford the Klmdran Eiver, 60 yds. wide, 3 ft. deep. Swift
current. Probably unfordable in h.w.
Some huts ; irrigation channel Oft. wide.
Numerous mounds in this neigbourhood.
Quru Shina on the r., 40 poor Kurdish huts.
The Lesser Zab is now 1 m. to the r.
Some rice cultivation. Track swampy in places.
Pass Bazmnsian, 40 huts, near a mound.
Some irrigation cuts.
20 huts to r., by a mound.
Pass Gulek, 60 huts, to 1.
Rauiyeh, 300 houses.
ROUTE 39
KOI SANJAQ—SULEIMANIYEH (63^ M.)
■Authority : — Military Report on E. T. A., vol. iv, 112 (report of 1886).
The main track to Suleimaniyeh keeps SE. over open country
along the foot of the Heib es-Sultan Dagh, which lies to the E., and