40 Brigade- Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Products 



Chinsh-sliom — [black gliiej, animal glue. 

 Chish-khdm — a pea cultivated in fields at Meshad, 

 PisuM species. 



Chloride of Ammonium, Sal-ammoniac, 



Naoshddar. An import into the country, the finest is said 

 to come from Bokhara. Employed chiefly by tinsmiths and 

 gunsmitlis. 



Chloride of Sodium, Common Salt. 



Namak, namik, ncmak ; Turkomani, thuz. Herat seems to 

 be the place to which all the salt in the trade gravitates, 

 and from this it is exported to the surrounding countries. 

 From Panjdeh and the great saline plains in the vicinity, 

 called Nemak-sar, is obtained a white salt. At Cha-fil, where 

 some new shafts have been lately sunk, some 40 miles 

 from Do-cha-i-ibrahim-khan, is obtained a very coarse brown, 

 almost black salt. Quarries of rock-salt are said to exist in 

 the hills of Malik-dan, near where we encamped at Galicha 

 on the 12th October 1884. These were worked by Afghans, 

 and the produce is said to be a kind of black salt. There is, 

 however, a red rock-salt for sale in Herat, the same as our 

 Punjab rock-salt, no one could tell me where it came from, 

 it may be entirely an imported article from India. Meshad 

 obtains all its salt from Herat, but European prepared fine 

 salt is to be found for sale in the bazaars. 



C}i6b — *-H>^ — chnh, chu — a piece of wood, a stick, 

 the plant, vv^ooden. 



Chobak — i^j^^ — [a small stick] employed in separat- 

 ing cotton from the pods. 



Chob-i-chlni — [China stick]. The root of Smilax 

 China. 



Choh-i-daat — [stick for the hand]. A staff or stick to 

 be carried in the hand. 



Choh-i-ghoza — [the cotton plant], Gossypium 



HERBACEUM. 



Chukandar — ^Jva*:^. — Beet, Beta vulgaris. 

 Chukri — iSjSi^ — the edible, indigenous Rhubarb, 

 Rheum Ribe.s. 



