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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... small dependencies, viz. Jandab (Gandab), Jur, Keran, and Ishakabad, and two canals called Bad and Mihrin. Langgrud is a small village on the Kom-Kashan road, 10 miles from Kom. During winter most of its people reside at Khurabad. Pasangun, i.e. Pa i Sangan, is a small hamlet on the Kom-Kashan road, 16 miles from Kom. It has a good caravanserai. The water-supply of the villages of Vazkerud is from the Bidhand river, which rises between the Burzeh and Halil peaks, 30 miles south of Kom, and in old times joined the Kom river south-east of the city, and filled the depression where Langerud now stands. 90.--(4) The Kinar i Rudkhaneh district--that is, "the district on the banks of the river"--comprises the old.district of Eudbar, and extends along the Anarbar river up to Mahallat. The principal village is Taikan (vulgo Daghanek), inhabited by seventy families of the Khalej tribe, and situated on the right bank of the river, 12 miles from Kom. I have not visited this district. The river near Taikan runs over a rock which is scooped out like a trough, and the water rushes over it with great force and velocity. The author of a description of Kom written in 1890 says that a man cannot possibly pull a stone, tied to a string, up this trough; yet the fish of the river, when travelling to the upper waters in the month of May, easily pass through it. The place is known as the balmeh (step) of Taikan. Other villages of this district are Chashmeh i 'Ali, 22 miles from Kom, with twenty houses; Gerijan, on the river, 8 miles before reaching the Mahallat province, with thirty houses, and gardens producing the Kamali plum Muhammedabad, etc. 91.--(5) Kohistan (Arab, form of Kuhistan) is the hilly district extending in the south to Ardahal and the frontiers...