"بلاد فارس والشأن الفارسي بقلم جورج ناثانييل كرزون، عضو البرلمان." [‎٣‎٠‎٤] (٧٤٨/٣٨٥)

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built on rocks and connected by frail bridges or causeways, are
turned by the current, and present a picturesque appearance.
Dizful is in most respects so faithful a counterpart of Shushter (from
which it is distant less than forty miles) that I shall dispense with a
detailed description of its features, referring my readers to the next
chapter, wherein will be related my own experiences at the sister-
city. The population of Dizful, which was once inferior to that of
Shushter, is said now to amount to over 16,000, or double the
latter's total. Both places contain crowds of holy but fanatical
impostors; life and its surroundings are much the same in each;
RIVER AND WATER-MILLS AT DIZFUL
alike in architecture the towns are similar, in general neglect of
trade and tillage, and in contented evidence of universal and
incorrigible decay. The chief local manufacture at Dizful is indigo,
of which there are said to be 120 factories in the town. But so
little has the value of the combined waterways of its own river and
of the Karun, into which the Ab-i-Diz flows further down, been
appraised by native merchants, that the import and export trade
of the place, which might easily be doubled or trebled in volume,
is at present conducted by an overland track from the Turkish
landing-place of Amarah on the Tigris, merchandise being brought