"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد II. ١٩١٧" [‎٢‎٤‎١] (٥٤٢/٢٥٠)

Miles from
'Ali el-
GharTii
90|:
96|
108|
ROUTES 8 e, f
241
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ENE. to m. 95^, NNE. to m. 96|. Road fit for wheels
to m. 89^, where it enters hills; thence good for pack
transport except at m. 921-931:.
Tang-i-Niaz, 20 yds. wide, with dry water-course down
the centre.
The hill-country to ESE. of this point is called Marbarreh
and Shah Nachir: 'Marbarreh' was a point on the
Russians' route in May, 1916; it is said that it would
make a good hill-station (alt. 4,900 ft.). According to
Force ' I)' Route Report the distance from Marbarreh
to Deh Bala is 11 m.
Cham Abadi: small permanent settlement. Abundant
water from the Ab-i-Chamil.
From here to Deh Bala the directions are: NE. to m. 100^,
NNE. to m.
ioii,
E. to m. 1024; thence NNE. The
road is impassable, as a whole, for wheels, and difficult
for pack transport in the stony Tang-i-Khurnuk (or
Khuradan) in first 4 m., and at m. 105-| for \ m. before
a crossing of the Ab-i-Ohamil.
Deh Bala. See Boute 9, m. 116-|. That route gives the
rest of the Russians' march 9, note under
m. 116jf).
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EOUTE 8 £
SHEIKH SAAB—BAGH-I-SHAHIj
Authority Force ' D ' Koute Report, Serial no. 15 (September 1916).
Bagh-i-Shahl was destroyed two or three generations ago by Lurs
of the Fusht-i-Kuh. The neighbourhood, which is irrigated from the
Wadi (Ab-i-Changulak or Changuleh), was long in dispute between
the Vali of Fusht-i-Kuh and the Turks. In 1914 the Boundary
Commission awarded it to the Turks, deciding that the frontier
should pass just above the Shehabi Head, where the irrigation
channels take off from the river (see below, p. 244). Since the
beginning of the war, however, the Vali has built a new fort near the
ruins of Bagh-i-Shahl in order to re-assert his claim.
Of the two alternative routes given below, the first (eastern),
Seyyid Mohammed, is the better going. It is passable for all arms
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