"دليل بلاد فارس، الجزء III، وهو يتضمن محافظة فارس، لورستان، عربستان، خوزستان، يزد، كرمانشاه، أردلان، كردستان" [و‎‎١‎١‎٩] (٦٨٦/٢٤٢)

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under 6 feet was met with. Here obstructions were encountered ; and,
although at this season the river can be ascended several miles higher,
the current becomes very rapid, and the pebbly bottom increases the
difficulty of disengaging a vessel which has run aground. At Kala
Bandar the natural band running half across the river increases its
current. In April the current is always rapid, and tracking up is a
work of labour.
From the Tang-i-Bahrain, the point at which the two western arms
of the river, after junction, enter the Luristan hills, the Dizful river
forces its way through a succession of chasms and gorges, and the
track along its hank is utterly impracticable : indeed, this part of the
range is so very precipitous that there is only one single pathway
conducting across it from Dizful to Burujird : it is followed by Iliyats on
foot: it is not to be traversed by a horseman, and is considered the
most difficult of all the mountain pathways. It breaks into the
Sahna-i-Lur between the hill forts of Tangawan and Kala-i-Shahi.
Sf Haw lift son.)
This river is crossed at Dizful by a brick bridge of twenty-one or
twenty-two arches. No span of greater width than 30 feet. Arches both
rounded and pointed : bridge 430 yards long : roadway fit for one line
of traffic in bad repair. Up stream the river is used to turn many
flour mills; 5th April 1884, it was in flood, and 400 to 500 yards wide
rapid current. Near the point where the Ab-i-Dizful leaves the
mountains is the celebrated Diz-i-ShahL The river is again met with
at about 18 miles south of Burujird at Chulan Chulan (q.v.)
A good mule road traverses the well cultivated valley of the Ab-i-
Dizful ; soil clay; wheat growing 2 inches high; 22nd April, barometer
24 , 8 / ' (5,350 feet).
The general run of the valley here is 140° and 340°. Nearing the
river the valley becomes very swampy, and for 1 mile horses and mules
found the greatest difficulty in traversing it, sinking over their fetlocks
into the sticky clay at each step.
Ford over the river Diz, 3 feet 6 inches to 4 feet deep; current swift,
250 feet to 300 feet wide. There are here the remains of a masonry
bridge, of which four arches only are now standing. Beyond the
bridge the river valley is swampy ; barometer 25 , 0 /! ' (4,870 feet). The
river is generally fordable except after rain.
The valley is bordered on either hand by hills similar to those
crossed, those to the east being less in height by 200 feet to 300 feet;
those to west are still snow-topped. The river Diz traverses it in a
south-easterly direction for 13 miles, where, joined by the Kemendab,
it turns to the south and breaks through the hills at the Tang-i-Bahrain,
whence a Bakhtiaii road, via Lanjonr, leads by seven stages to
Shustar. [Bell.)
DIZ—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village between Sultanlah and Zinjan, 10 miles from the former, 14
from the latter. [Stuart — Champain — Ouseley.)
DIZFUL—Lat. 32° 21'. Long. 48° 21' on St. John's map. Elev. 680'.
A town in Khuzistan, on left bank of river of the same name,