"الطرق في بلاد فارس. (المجلد I.) (خراسان وسيستان.)" [ظ‎‎٢‎١‎٨] (٥٣٦/٤٤١)

Route No. VII {c)—contd.
affc f st eep descent by very rough bridle-path, cross small stream,,
and, at 18th mile, passing over low spur, reach Savaldl.
1,3 KHAIRABAD .. IS] m. General direction N.
—— ■ (about 6,800'). Follow stream down
• + 2 • , , , fr om Savaldi keep-
^ t° right side of narrow glen enclosed by low easy heights
At 5* miles reach Yang! Kila, mud fort and village on open plain.
N °; + T II & ) ^ onnects here - Yangi Kila is the head
quarters of the Kushkaneh, or NW. district of Kuchan, which
comprises all the villages, some 33 in number, stretching along
the Russmn frontier from Sarani on the E. to Ganfur on the W
and thence S. down to the Bujnurd border. The village con
tains about 40 families of Kurds from Flruzeh, to make room
tor whom the former residents were turned out and sent else-
^ad it not been for this > the Flruzeh people would
have left Kuchan territory altogether, and as it was they were
only returned with difficulty. The country here consists of
open, undulating and cultivated uplands without a single tree
except the few in the gardens round the villages. At 84 miles
reach village of Kullak (marching by lower road) and then N. up
over open undulating country to village of Zaidar at 14 miles
ibi ascent of 900 feet leads to the edge of a plateau. There
m V . and m 2 miles reach Khairabad, a village of 20 families
Sd heTT 1 ( M an) xT hiC T h iS unoccu P ied - ^^ian Khaira-
trees “ 6 N ' 11 is used as a hm station. No
Water .—Scanty supply.
f FIRUZEH
(2,294').
704
17 m.. General direction NW.
Road runs N. over
shed to Russian Khairabad at 1 mile. TheneTby military roacUo
iruzeh, occupied by the Russians in 1893 ; 2C0 ^houses •
stream of good water; 1 4 miles further down the valley is a
.mall Russian settlement. Supplies for 5,000 men for a month
for IrtllW J hMe - ano tier roadfimpracticabte
nm 111 an , d the Sarani Pass which makes this.
26 Siles ^ Th ! r ° ad COntinues to Askhabad,
ffindvSr 18 ° rtar u traCkS t0 Askhab ad ; one mu
rimavar, 18 miles, the other via the Tagun, 21.