"تقرير عسكري حول عربستان (المنطقة رقم ١٣)." [ظ‎‎١‎٤] (٣٦٦/٣٣)

Not far below its exit from the hills at Kaleh-i-Dukhtar, an
ancient fort in Persia on its left bank, it passes the village of
'Gutwand on its right bank. Here there is on that side a fertile
alluvial plain, sloping down slightly from the west, and opposite
to the fertile plain of ’Aqili, round which the river flows in a
remarkable curve. Completing this curve in a north-east direc
tion, the river buckles round the elbow of a range of hills on the
rig]it bank and them makes an acute bend almost due south
It shortly after receives the brackish waters of the Shur-Labahrl
one of its largest tributaries, which flows into it from the left
along the foot of the ridge known as the Kuh-i-Fadalak This
range on the left and the lower hills on the right bank "form a
defile through which the river passes, until it Lerges into“he
plain about 3 miles above Shushtar. Some 2i miles beyond this
barrier and about 600 yards above Shushtar'it divides into two
streams, the left branch being called the Ab-i-Gargar The
branch to the right retains its name as the Karun and on the
north side of the town forms a broad sheet of water, and then
urning to the south and passing an ancient dam and bridge
once known as the Band-i-Kaisar, but now called the Pul i-
Dizful (400 feet) changes its name to the Ab-i-Shatait. (For a
description of the Ab-i-Gargar and Ab-i-Shatait see below.)
, ftl a P 0mt , 3 + ? miles f outh in a direct line from Shushtar, or
at 453 miles of the river s course (reckoning by the Ab-i-Gargar)
the two branches re-unite with the village of Band-i-Qir situLd
at the angle of their confluence. At the point of junction the
Abu-Diz from the west also adds its waters to the Karun. There
is a bridge constructed across the Ab-i-Gargar about 200 vards
on to Wat ontto
left bank (465 miles) the river is almost straight with a due
southerly course From Wais to Ahwaz (496 miles) on the left
bank its general direction is south-west bv south the river
making a number of bends and nearly doubling the distances
between these places, as compared to that by the land route
which is only 16 miles. ' 0 ute
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Immediately above Ahwaz, where it is now about 600 vard s
angles, and m so doing forms a ser.Vc r.f -V m, 1 ri 8 ht
obstruct sonte U miles the rioefs coumeTdUnX 2X