The Bayat village Kushkak
Koshgek, April 30th
― five parasangs ― seven hours and a half ― across the mountains by an easy
road: an uncultivated country, with a scanty population for the first part; in
the last two parasangs a few pretty villages lie right and left of the road.
The peak of Demavend is distinctly to be seen two hours before arriving at this
halt, distant forty-give parasangs. A few years before I had seen it at
Kohrood, a village on the road to Ispahan, distant fifty-four parasangs or
eighty-one leagues. Koshgek is a village of a hundred and fifty houses. The inhabitants
are of the Beijat tribe of nomads.
Ferrier J.P., Caravan journeys and wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan,
Turkistan and Beloochistan; with historical notices of the countries lying
between Russia and India, translated by William Jesse. ― London: John Murray, 2nd
edition, 1857, pp. 45.
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