"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد III. جزء I: من A إلى K" [ظ‎‎٥‎٢‎٢] (١٢٧٨/١٠٤٩)

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6 KAR—KAR
walls of rock some 2,000 feet high. With a final bend at right angles, it
points due east for a few miles and reaches the hamlet of Du Pulan (5,000
feet) after a total run of 105 miles. It passes out of the narrow, deep and
gloomy gorge, under a brick bridge of a single arch, 12 yards span and with
bad approaches, and is joined a few hundred yards below this bridge by
another considerable affluent. This is the Ab-i-Shabz Kuh, which also rushes
down past Naghan, through a great rift of the Tang-i-Siah. This stream is
bridged by a pile and wicker structure opposite the village of Du Pulan and
shortly before it reaches the Karun. The river now assumes a southerly
course for a few miles, but later changing to south-west, it strikes through
between the Kuh-i-Sard Ab on the right and the Kuh-i-Sabz Kuh on the left.
At 115 miles the walls of the latter overhang it precipitously, and later, the
Kuh-i-Buz Man closing in on the right bank, the river enters a defile known
as the Tang-i-Agha. Continuing its course between these cliff walls, it makes
another acute bend at 135 miles in a west by south-west direction ; and passes
the hamlets of Sunak on the right at 142 miles and Baghak (3,600 feet),
at 145 miles on the left. A small stream runs into it near the latter village.
At 152 miles it receives the Ab-i-Hilisat from the north-west and 1 mile
lower down the Ab-i-Rig from the south-west. Bending now slightly north
of west it winds its way through deep valleys, until at 166 miles it receives
one of its largest tributaries in the Ab-i-Bazuft, a little below the hamlet
of Charka. The Kuh-i-Mazarim here checks its course and makes it rather
conform to that of its latest feeder ; the direction now becoming almost due
south to 170 miles. From here the river makes a bend again to north of
west to 175 miles, where a small stream joins it from the Kuh-i-Shapir on
the right. Then flowing south-west past Sir-i-Chal on the left bank, it
receives a considerable addition from the Ab-i-Lurdigan, at 181 miles, from
the south-east. This stream is joined by the Ab-i-Burs shortly before it runs
into the Karun, and together they form a good-sized river. At this point
the river makes a bend again to a little north of west and with many windings
reaches the village of Shapir at 188 miles. Continuing now due north-west
and flanked by the mighty Mangasht range on the left and the lesser
ranges of the Kuh-Sawa, Qalandaran and Banistan on the right, it
passes two ferries ; the first established a little below the Deh-i-Darkashi
at 205 miles and the second 1| miles lower down. At 209 miles a stream
draining the Diz valley, the Ab-i-Kukat, flows into it from the right.
From this point the river makes some sharp zigzags to clear the spurs
of the Zir-i-Kuh or Pa Kuh on the left ; and at 215 miles flows under the
Pul-i-Gudar-i-Balutak (2,900 feet) at a bend which here makes its course
north-east. For a specification of this bridge, the materials for which
Messrs. Lynch Brothers brought out from Europe for the Bakhiari
caravan route, vide this Gazetteer—Shalu (Pul-i-). After a short stretch
the river makes a bend due north and then gradually changes its direction
to north-west. It winds through deep gorges and ravines between the
great Kuh-i-Safid on the right and Kuh-i-Razandan on the left. At 228
miles it passes the site of an old log bridge, while a few miles farther on
it passes through a deep rift below the Kuh-i-Safid.
At 235 miles the river may be said to pass beyond any accurate descrip
tive knowledge. We know that it flows north-west beihind the Kub-i-