234 Geographical Notices. 
count given by some Persian travellers, who had recently left 
the eastern shore of the lake and declared that they had crossed 
it by following this tongue of land. 
Beyond the village of Nekh, the expedition came to a desert 
of 250 versts in extent. This they crossed in its narrowest p 
between the villages of Serri Tschakh and Dekhi-Seif, at a place 
where in a length of 200 versts no trace of water was found. 
After a journey of four days they reached Kirman. : 
This place might be considered as entirely unknown up to this 
time. It appears from barometrical observations made there, that 
from lake Zaré (1200 feet high) the surface of the earth mses 
again up to the villages of Nekh and Serri-Tschalh (4000 and 
5000 feet high), when the country gradually descends to its low. 
est point (900 feet high) in the desert at a place called Schakhm 
Lut, but rises again as far as Khubbis, which is situated at the 
foot of the mountains, at an elevation of 1500 feet, and reaches 
its maximum (8000 to 9000 feet) at the top of these nee 
then it falls again towards Kirman, which however is still fo 
to be 5500 feet high. 
Over the whole area, which extends from Esd to Tspahan, (the 
point toward which the expedition directed its course,) the coun 
tries which border south and east upon the great salt desert, ae 
3000 to 4000 feet above the level of the sea; the same 1s ae 
with those countries which separate Schakroud from Met 
along the northern side of the desert; only in two pia 
considerable heights are found. endé, 10 
From Ispahan the expedition passed through Zergh sentir 
versts from Tehran, went beyond the village of Firouska, wtih 
ed the provinces of Mazanderan and Astrabad, and follow 
course of the river Talar, which empties into the esse: ‘ae 
Mr. Lentz determined, during his travels in Persia and Aig 
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istan, about two hundred geographical points ; at ies 
points he could determine the three magnetic elements | 
declination and inclination); at twenty-nine other epost the 
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ever, he observed only two of them. ascertained W! 
aid of the trigonometrical caleulus, the heights of a 
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