"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٧] (٥٣٠/٢٩٨)

EOUTES 99, 100
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Bakais. Ascend a narrow, winding valley up to crest of
a ridge (alt. 3,250 ft.) from which Mardln is visible.
Descend a winding, stony track down a narrow valley.
Short ascent to
Sor, small town. Chief place of a and seat of a
Kaimmakam. Well supplied with gardens and water.
For the route from Sor v Kullith to Diarbekr see
Eoute 101, under m. 27.
Track fairly easy to Kullith. Descend valley of the Sor
Chai for a short distance. Cross a low, stony spur and
enter the Kullith valley.
There is a track from Sor to Bismil 102, m. 23^).
Pass Ahmedi, 120 Kurdish houses, -J m. 1. on the farther
side of the junction of the Sor and Kullith streams.
The Sor is about 20 ft. wide, and there is near Ahmedi
a stone bridge crossed by the route to Diarbekr, see
Boute 101, under m. 31^.
Ascend Kullith valley on 1. bank of stream through vine
yards, cultivation, and groves of young poplars.
Kullith (alt. 2,800 ft.), Syrian Jacobite village of 130
houses in a deep, well-cultivated valley. Water from
a large spring below the village.
From Kullith to the col above Qasr village the track is
very difficult, winding, and stony, among rocky hills.
Koute reaches head of valley, and then winds through stony,
brushwood-covered hills.
Teffeh (alt. 3,750 ft.). 50 Kurdish houses, water from a
spring.
Winding track up and down through brushwood-covered hills.
Hoskeh, Kurdish village, 1. (One account gives the time
taken from Hoskeh to Teffeh as 2 hrs.)
Cross a valley.
Qasr, Kurdish village, 100 houses. Water from rain-
cisterns. (The full name of this village appears to be
Qasr Agha Tamo Giaouri.) Stony ascent from valley.
Col, 3,650 ft. Then descend 1 m. Track easy to Hasur.
Winding track through cultivation, passing Basiat village.
Hasur, alt. variously given as 2,900 ft. and 3,250 ft.
Kurdish, 120 houses. From Hasur, 7^ m., over easy,
undulating, and sometimes cultivated ground to N. edge
of the Kefr Joz valley and the Eddawa Chai (see
99, m. 20^).
MES. IV