IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Overland to India : vol.2 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
152 OVERLAND TO INDIA
CHAP.
the map. Such a way has never existed any more than a direct way from Dest-gerdun to Turut.
Edward Stack, B.C.S., travelled through Persia in
188i. He did not touch on the great Kevir, but he gives observations of smaller kevir basins in other parts of the
country. He makes the following reflections on a kevir
depression about midway between Lar and Kerman, some of which are very true to nature :1 " Perhaps it may be
well to explain what a Persian kavir is. It is the result of the bareness of Persian mountains and the saline virtues of a Persian plain. The mountains, being destitute of trees, brushwood, or grass, have for centuries been wearing away under sun, wind, and rain ; the crumbled rocks extend in long smooth slopes down to the plain, while a long smooth slope rises again to the hills on the opposite side. Such a slope will often be 20 miles broad. The rain and snow of winter, descending from the hills in streams small and great, lose themselves in these porous slopes, and emerge again at the lowest level of the plain, but in a far different shape. The water has become full of salt, and oozes up to the surface in patches of glittering white. Thus a kavîr must always follow the drainage line of the plain in which it happens to lie, and if the plain be a large one, the kavîr may be seen like a white strip stretching
away in the direction in which the plain falls, till plain t
and kavîr are lost in the sky. For the rest, the quantity of
water in a kavir varies at different times and in different places, so that you may have either a mere saline efflores-
cence on good firm clay, or a salt quagmire in which the laden beast will founder if it strays off the track. . . . The general aspect of a kavîr is utter bareness, unbroken by stone or weed. The smallest object, they say, shows in vastly magnified proportions ; if there happens to be a clod on the surface, it looks like a hill."
On his way from Kerman to Yezd, Stack passed through Kuh-benan, Marco Polo's Cobinan, to Bafk. It may be
mentioned, by the way, that his map shows a direct road from Kuh-benan to Baghabad (Bahabad). On setting out. from Bafk north-westwards he says :2 " We took two days'
1 Stack's Six Months in Persia, vol. i. p. 175. 2 P. 245.
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