The twenty points on the road from Turut are as
follows : Malhe, a place with camel pasturage ; Dervas, a salt spring with grazing ground ; Bunab, a salt spring ; Majera, a hamlet of three houses, with a sweet spring ; Avel-ahiyå, a sweet spring with pasturage ; Germ-ab, a sweet well with pasture ; Sitel, a sweet spring with pasture ; Cha-hek, a sweet well with grazing ; Gelle-cheshme, a sweet spring ; Cheshme-i-shuturi, a sweet spring with a nomads' camping-ground ; Gudar-i-dobor, a well of sweet water
with iliats, nomads, of Baluchi race ; Neëni, a sweet spring with a nomad camp ; Kal-i-saus (sebs), a stream with sweet water in winter, dry in summer, a nomad camp ; Cha-pusé, a sweet water well ; Kal-i-lader, a sweet spring with grazing for sheep and camels ; Cha-gulli, a sweet spring with pasturage ; Cha- i - kebir, a hamlet of ten houses with sweet water ; Dest-gerdun, a village of 200 houses ; Shir-gesht, a hamlet with ten houses ; Chahrdeh-i-Tebbes, and Tebbes.
The whole road runs along the foot of hills where springs gush forth. In general it is 4 to 6 farsakh from the edge of the desert, sometimes only two. It crosses no offshoot of the Kevir, but has always the salt desert on the right hand as one goes southwards. At Cha-pusé the Kuh-iyakh-ab, or " icy water hill," is on the east, and on the west Kuh-sefid, or " white hill," which is said to be very high, covered with snow in winter, and visible from Turut in clear weather. Near Tebbes there are hills on both sides. Kevir-i-Turshiz, situated farther east, is quite cut off from the great salt desert, which also has different names, Kevir-i-Jandak and Kevir-i-Halvan, for instance. Keviri-Bajistan on Vaughan's map is evidently a part of the Kevir-i-Turshiz.
Kal-mura is a river which carries water after rain, and runs out into the Kevir. Vaughan believes, as we have seen, that this river falls into a large salt lake in the Kevir. Kal-i-germab is said to be a river coming from Kuh-idushakh in the north-east, and in some years to close the caravan road between Turut and Tebbes for two months in winter. It becomes dry in the middle of May and can also be crossed in winter if there is no rain for a time. At that time, in the beginning of February, it was said to be
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