200 Brigade- Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Prodvcta 



Southern Persia, India, or Russia. It is imported not only 

 for local consumption but for exportation to Turkistan. 

 The most of the gur or solid molasses comes from India, a 

 little from Southern Persia. Yezd sends a well-known loaf 

 sugar, which is a through article, but is sold in the 

 bazaars as kand-i-yezdl, as if manufactured there, which can- 

 not be the case. A fine sugar-candy comes from Bandar- 

 Abbas, well known as nahdt-i-bmidar-ahhas. Most of the 

 loaf-sugar comes from India, some from Piussia, called Jcand- 

 i-rusi. A great deal of the coarse imported sugar is con- 

 verted at Herat into a fine sugar-candy. I possessed specimens 

 of sugar that were said to have been made at Herat from the 

 juice of the grape ; I regret these were lost, or rather stolen. 

 They resembled small cakes of loaf sugar, but the crystalline 

 structure was more like fine sand, and very gritty. The 

 syrup or treacle made from grape-juice resembles our golden 

 syrup treacle, and is consumed generally all over the 

 country eaten with the diet. It is a capital addition to one's 

 food, and not to be despised. 



Sulphate of Copper — ml-tutld. 



Sulphite — gogird — is an importation from Persia 



and India. 

 Sumach — Rhus Coeiaria. 

 Sumdgh, samagh — ^♦'^ — sumaghk — the Sumach, 



Rhus Coeiaeia. 

 Sumhal, sambcd — J^a**^ — sunbal, sanhal — ^aa*x — the 



root of Feeula Sumbul, or of Feeula 



SUAVEOLENS. 



Sundur, sindur — D^-y^^-.y'^ — red-lead. 



Supdri — t^lj>«- — seixlru — the Areca nut ; the nut 



of the Aeeca Catechu Palm. 

 SuPEESTiTious Prejudices — 



The natives have certain superstitions relative to the 

 following: — The Amaranth, Amarantus paniculatus, which 

 is grown in ones and twos through the fields, to act as amu- 

 lets, and thus protect the crops through which they grow. 

 Celtis caucasica, PiNUS HALEPENSis, and Pistacia VEPiA are 

 usually found planted round their holy places or Ziarats, 



