"دليل بلاد فارس، الجزء III، وهو يتضمن محافظة فارس، لورستان، عربستان، خوزستان، يزد، كرمانشاه، أردلان، كردستان" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٦٨٦/٢٦٩)

The Bakhtlaris smile at the state of affairs in Lur-i-Kuchak, and the
Ilkhani. if allowed, would soon reduce it to order.
It is very doubtful, however, whether this anarchy is not connived
at for political reasons. To open the Karun to navigation, and the
roads through Luristan to commerce, is, to the mind of the bhah, to
give the foreigner a footing in Shustar and Dizful, to enrich the Lurs
and Arabs, and to strengthen a part of the country still unsubdued
and occupied by alien races and but scantily by Persians.
FELLAHlAH.—See Dorak.
FlRttZABAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in Fars, 72 miles south of Shiraz, and lOo miles from Bu-
shahr by Farrashband. .
Though prosperous it is now less important than it was m the
middle ages, and now contains some 4,000 inhabitants. It is sur
rounded by a mud wall and ditch, and there are a few plantations of
date trees round it. The town, though walled, is incapable of offering
any resistance to an army, and it is commanded by a low range ot lulls
on the east side. Supplies of grain and slaughter cattle can be procured
here, and rice, fuel, and ghi can be obtained from the nomads in the
Firuzabad is the chief town of the Ilkhani, who should be chief of
the Iliyat tribes of the district, but having been left early an orphan
with no one to look after his interests, the headship of the clan passed
to his first cousin Darab Khan, who seems to be a kind of brigand on a
magnificent scale. The Ilkhani is an educated and refined man of
more than average intelligence. < # n
The plain to which Firuzabad gives its name is elevated and well
watered and bears rich wheat and famous rice.
It is one of the best corn-producing and grazing districts in Persia.
For the most part it is 7 miles wide, but at the south-eastern extiem-
ity narrows to 5 miles. Here it only produces grass, and has a rocky
mountain ridge on either hand, that on the north-east rising to 2,000
feet. It had thirty villages as many years ago, but the number is now
reduced to thirteen. The Firuzabad river, which has its source in the
Dasht-i-Muak, enters and leaves the plain by great gorges in the moun
tains which bound it. It is full of fish. Before arriving at Babu Nej
it forces its way through three more of these gorges, the last of which
has perpendicular cliffs 500 feet high; it then joins its waters with those
of the Kara Agach and flows into the Mund river (q.v.)
This district enjoys a moderate climate and was recommended by
Colonel Taylor as being in every way eligible for a cantonment.
The terms on which land is held in this district are as follow :—Land
the private property of the farmer is cultivated at his sole expense,
the labourers receiving in lieu of wages one-fifth of the produce ; out
of the remainder the farmer accounts to government for one-third as
tax. When the labourer furnishes seed, plough, and labour, he receives
one-third, government one-third, and the land-owner one-third of the
produce. On the Crown lands the government takes two parts of
the produce, but furnishes seed and ploughs: the labourer gets the
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