"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [ظ‎‎٦‎٨] (٥٣٠/١٤١)

LAND ROUTES
Zab river. Here a track from the Lizan bridge meets it
(see lioute 68 b, tinder m. 28, ii).
Eoad now goes up the 1. bank of the Zab and for more than
20 m. is extremely difficult for laden mules, ascending
and descending stanga in many places.
A very bad stanga is crossed, 800 yds. long.
Chumbi de Umara, a Nestorian village.
Eoute crosses a slope of debris and boulders, and goes over
some open ground.
Bridge, built on 3 piers. On the opposite or r. bank,
Kurdish village of Chumbi de Kurdai. From this
village a track goes down the r. bank for 1 m. and (hen
turns up the hill to W. to Ashita, the capital of Tiari,
9 m. distant.
Route continues up 1. bank.
Deir Marsova (alt. 3,100 ft.), Nestorian village. Here is
a well-known place of pilgrimage. The valley is 100 yds
wide.
Cross a stream coming from Rumta, and a slope of debris.
Chumbi de Immah.
Cross another slope of debris and a small Pass on
r. bank the Maidani stream.
Pass Chumbi de Malik, on r. bank, a Nestorian village of
some importance, whose houses and cultivation are on
both sides of the river. Here is the residence of Malik
Ishmaerl, the Chief of the Upper Tiari Nestorians. There
is a wicker bridge over the Zab.
Bedel Yertha, Nestorian village on 1. bank.
Bridge, of the cantilever type.
Cross a succession of three stang and four slopes of debris.
Pass a small stream on r. bank in ■whose valley lies the
important Nestorian village of Malata.
Chumbi de Haso, on r. bank.
Proceed through the cultivation of Ehan Dadush. Cross
a large stream in whose valley lies Dadush, a Nestorian
village, and pass a succession of slopes of debris and
stanga, one of which, 1-| m. from Khan Dadush, is par
ticularly difficult to cross. Enter a great canon, which
winds considerably and along which there is a fairly
good causeway accessible only when the river is low in
the late summer and autumn ; at other seasons of the
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