ABSTRACT
The traveler, who, in the clement weather of the late spring, summer and early autumn, passes rapidly in two days by motor from Baghdad to Teheran, has little appreciation either of the difficulties attending the traversing of this route in winter or of the even greater difficulties encountered during all seasons of the year only a few years ago when the way was only a caravan trail. For all its romantic flavor, the present city of Baghdad possesses less of interest in the form of monumental remains, than any comparable old town of the Near or Middle East. Kermanshah, the first town of importance on the route from Baghdad to Teheran, is some one hundred and twenty miles east of Khosrovi. From Hamadan to Kazvin, a distance just short of one hundred and fifty miles, the road, passing along an elevated plateau, is unnoteworthy for other than the Aveh Pass, less precipitous than either the Paytak or Assadabad Passes.
