"معاملات الجمعية الجغرافية في بومباي. من يناير ١٨٦٣ حتى ديسمبر ١٨٦٤. (تحرير السكرتير.) المجلد XVII." [‎١‎٥‎٢] (٥٢٤/٣٢١)

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remarks on a recent journey
have a length of live by a breadth of two and a-half or three miles.
We found the Eliant milk and butter excellent. The distance from
the Meoon serai to the halting place in Dusht-i-Arjan may be 10 or 11
hilly miles.
39. Leaving Dusht-i-Arjan you ascend by a comparatively easy
slope over some highlands still well sprinkled with trees, and after six
miles come steeply down on the River Karaghach. In this, the driest
season, it has still a depth of a foot or so of water in a broadish stream, and
winds away South towards Ferozeabad. After crossing this valley, you
come on the fine open downs of Khoneh-i-Zuneeoon, in my opinion the
healthiest camping ground along the entire road. It is some hundreds
of feet higher than the Shirauz valley, open, well-watered, with a cara
vanserai and patches of cultivation. This serai may he 10 miles from
the Dusht-i-Arjan station, and is at least 27 miles from Shirauz, whither
you pass over rolling highlands, but always descending somewhat until
vou open the Shirauz plain, more and more frequently darkened on its
further limits by the orchards and gardens forming the suburbs of
Shirauz itself.
40- This town is the capital of the province of Pars. It may con
tain from 30 to 40 thousand inhabitants. Its walls are nearly in ruins;
its bazars are good, arched, and sufficiently wide. They reminded me
of the more modern bazars of Tehran. The finest bazar and the finest
and most durable of all the buildings in and about Shirauz were built
by the celebrated Kerim Khan, himself originally an Eliant, afterwards
Lord of Pars, and indeed of Persia. The proverb goes, that the
earthquakes always spare what Kerim Khan erected. As to the suburbs
of Shirauz, I have not seen any town in Persia whose gardens appeared
to me so numerous, extensive, and luxuriant.
41. The province is governed by the king’s eldest son. He is
not however (Wah-ahed) heir apparent. It seems four considerations
are entered into in determining who among the king’s sons shall
succeed—
1st .—That the mother be of the royal tribe Kujjur.
2nd .'—Priority in age.
3rd .—No physical defect of a nature to incapacitate for reigning.
Ath .—The will of the reigning Shah.
42. The mother of the Prince Governor was not of the royal tribe.
Again, although Prince Governor, it does not follow that he is Firman-
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