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Fors, each other by the projecting mountain called Kopi in the mountains immediately behind Behaban, and after __ Furs. 
nae : hog af flowing within a few miles of that it passes through — 
the vale of Ram Hormuz to old Dorak, in the territory of 
These districts, which contain only a few wretched 
mud are badly cultivated. The Cold Re- 
gin arcs from the of Kazeroon to that of 
-Yezdekhast, on the of Irak. Tt comprehends 
most of the mountainous part of Fars, The mountain 
the Chab Sheikh, where the Arabians have erected a 
dam, for the purpose of irrigating the fields, leaving 
two chief brenches, one of which passes on the outside 
and the other through Dorak. The marshes in the 
vallies are generally 8 or 10 miles broad, and from 15 nei urhood of this town are occasioned by the lesser 
$ to 100 long. They afford abundance of pasturage, and branches. One of the principal branches enters the 
ill cultivated. The plains Karoon above Sabla, and the other empties itself into 
are commonly fi 3 
of Sheeraz, Ribeeoba; Merdesht, however, are in 
cultivation ; but, towards the north and 
west, they are almost unpeopled. Mr Kinneir travel- 
led, in 1809, above 60 miles between Behaban and 
Sheeraz, o—. =~ — . i ee vallies, 
without seei e face of a human being. An/ancient 
tribe peeve fase inhabited them, 
most exti by the orders of the prince; and the 
few which had escaped to the summits of the lofty 
mountains, ‘subsisted upon a wretched kind of bread 
made from acorns, and upon the pillage of travellers. 
The eastern part of the province towards Darabgherd 
and Fesa is more open. The soil is more sandy, and 
the plains more extensive. 
The cocina er ge oe eee 
separate range, but a bran ount Zagros, which 
stretches in a continued succession of ridges from the 
borders ‘of the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea and . 
Mount Caucasus. _ 
The hills in this province towards Bushire, are about 
24 miles from the sea. The. 
wards Bunder Reig ; and to the west of the village of Gu- 
nava,a low ridge suddenly projects to the south, and ter- 
minates at the sea shore in the projecti int of Kohi 
, which se the districts of wee and 
i This point is not high, but is about 7 or 8 
miles broad, and it lies the plain of Leerawee. 
Wee: ad for Dbink COr pou ahepy peenacee Gale’ dntanee, 
sea, and for 18 or 19, e this distance, 
had been als. 
in becomes contracted to- - 
the sea at Goban. In passing through the vale of Ram 
Hormuz the Jerahi receives a rapid river which flows - 
from the mountains about six miles east of the town of ~ 
Ram Hormuz. This tributary stream contains a ws 
body of water, and is not fordable after the melting of 
the snows. It-is the river alluded to in the marches of « . 
Timour. The river Bund Emeer, called by some of the 
ancients Cyrus, and by,the Greek historians Araxes, 
flows through the delightful valley of Merdesht, adorn- 
ed with the ruins of Persepolis, and in the rich districts -- 
of Kurjan it is subdivided into-.numerous streams for ~ 
irrigating the fields. The remaining part of the river 
is. joined by Shamier, a small stream which rises in a 
hot fountain, three miles from Gazian, a'town about 90 
miles from Sheeraz, and afterwards passes:the villages 
of Kumu and Syvund. The united streams then dis- 
themselves into the Jake Baktegan. 
In travelling from Bushire to Endian, Mr Kinneir - 
passed other four-rivers. The first of these rises among 
the mountains behind the old. city of Shapour, and after 
running through this city, and watering the villages - 
of Kesht and Dalkee, it.enters the Gulf alittle to the - 
south of Rohilla. Mr Kinneir supposes it-to be the.an- 
cient Heratenis. At Rohilla it is 60 yards broad and 
six feet deep.. The second-river, which he.supposes to 
be the Granis of Arrian, is.only.seven miles. to:the . 
north-west of this. It apse itself into the.sea 
half way between Rohilla and Bunder Reig ; ‘but. it is 
neither so wide nor so deep as the former. The third, 
which is the Roganis of Arrian, runs with a south-west 
form near’ Bunder Deelum. On turning the south- course from the mountains, and throws itself into the 
par Boyt ema dow and advanced branch, which is sea three miles north-east of Gunuva. It,is almost 
f Zeitoon, from a small town near Behaban, they in breadth to that of Rehilla. At high water it 
again retire to the north, and at the port of the Mashoor is im e, but it is only three feet deep during»the 
‘are 30 miles from the sea. eir most southern ebb. The last and the smallest river, which is pro- 
extremity at Shuster, crosses the 32d degree of North bably the Brizana of Arvian, flows between Hissarand . 
Latitude, in the 49th degree of East tude. Bunder Deelum. After a wandering. course from. the 
rivers, are the Tab, the Arosis of the 
ancients ; the Jerahi,; the ancient Pasitigris ; the Bund 
Emeer, and several others, whose modern names are not 
mentioned. ‘The Tab, which is the largest, is formed 
_ union of two streams near Zeitoon, one of which 
of the high hill of Kamarah, and the 
of Sheeras. - Mr Kimneir considers this latter branch as 
the river mentioned by Arrian in the march of Alexan- 
der. ‘The ‘Tab: Fars from Kuzistan, and pas- 
ses thre the town of Endian, where it is 80. 
wide (in Feb:) and for boats of 20 tons bur- 
then. ‘There is a ford about 9 miles above the town ; 
and the Tab discharges itself into the sea about 16 miles 
below corey The me of this river is. perfectly 
eweet when it passes Zeitoon ; but in running over 
hills towards Endian, it becomes so-brackish as hardly 
to be fit for use. This is also the case with all the other 
rivers in Fars, which empty themselves into the Per- 
TheriverJerahi, which is next in size to the Tab, rises 
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hills of Zeitoon, it discharges itself into the Gulf, eight 
miles south-east of Bunder Deelum. wield 
The salt lake of Baktegan is about/75'English miles poke, .. 
in circumference, and is situated about: 10°miles south- 
east of Sheeraz. In summer, when it is nearly. dry,’ 
the people on its: banks collect the salt, which encrusts . 
the bottom. This salt. is generally used throughout 
the theres and is reckoned. very fine: 
‘he 
principal towns in Fars:are Sheeraz the capital, ‘Towns, 
Kazeroon about 70 miles. nearly west of. Sheeraz, 
Shapour, Bushire, Bunder Reig a sea-port with about . 
300 or 400 inhabitants, Bunder :Deelum another sea~ — 
ing about 700inhabitants, Zeitoon with a popu« 
fase scuttoumnoens Behaban, the capital of the moun« 
tainous district of Khogiloea; having walls about three 
miles.in circumference, and nearly 10,000 inhabitants, 
Fallayoom, ‘Selbistan with 4000 inhabitants,  Niris, 
Feza, Darabjerd with pr inhabitants, and 
Ursinjan. - For more com; information respecting 
Raseewns, see Kinneir’s | ical Memoir of the 
Persian Empire, cata which -we arein- 
