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Fes to Tombuftoo, 1 29 days, or 4 lunar montlis and 9 day*. 

 See ToMBUCTOO and Wedinoon. See alfo Caravan. 



SHUMSHABAD, in Geography, a town of Hindoo, 

 ftan, in Lahore ; 6 miles S.E. of Attock. 



SHUMUM, a town of Egypt, on the Nile; 13 miles 

 N.W. of Cairo. 



SHUNAITE' EzzAiLE, a town of Egypt ; 30 miles 

 S.W. of Girge. 



SHUNAR, a town of Hindooltan, in Bahar ; 22 miles 

 N.E. of Bahar. 



SHUPARE, a town of Candahar ; 45 miles N. of 

 Attock. 



SHURBA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 30 

 miles E.S.E. of Boll. 



SHURDHUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; 50 

 miles E.N.E. of Junagur. 



SHUREGIAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Kerman ; 95 miles S.E. of Sirgian. 



SHUREJAN, a diftria of Grand Bucharia, in the W. 

 part of the kingdom of Balk. 



SHURFFAH, a town of Algiers, near the coaft ; 6 

 miles E. of Dellys. 



SHURMEEN, a town of Syria; 32 miles S.S.W. of 

 Aleppo. 



SHURMIN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kho- 

 raflan ; 25 miles N. of Maru-errud. 



SHURPH el Graab, i. e. the plnnacla of the ravens, a 

 rugged mountain of Algiers ; 25 miles N. of Tremecen. 



SHURUBUI, a town of Brafil, in the government of 

 Para; 22 miles E. of Pauxis. 



SHUS, the name of famous ruins in the Perfian empire, 

 fituated in the province of Kuziftan, or Chufillan, (the 

 ancient Sujiana, which fee, ) about feven or eight miles to 

 the weft: of Dezphoul, a town which lies on the eaftern 

 banks of the Abzal, in a beautiful and fpacious plain, 

 38 miles W. of Shufter, and celebrated for its elegant 

 bridge of 22 arches, 450 paces in length, 20 in breadth, 

 and about 40 in height, the piers of which are conltructed 

 of large ftones, and the arches and upper parts of burnt 

 brick. The ruins of Shus extend about twelve miles from 

 one extremity to the other, (hetching as far as the ealtern 

 bank of the Kerah, occupying an immenfe fpace between 

 that river and the Abzal, and, like the ruins of Ctefiphon, 

 Babylon, and Kufa, confiding of hillocks of earth and rub- 

 bi(h, covered with broken pieces of brick and coloured tile. 

 The largeit and mod remarkable of thefe mounds Hand at 

 the diftance of about two miles from the Kerah. The 

 firft is, at the lowed computation, a mile in circum- 

 ference, and nearly 100 feet in height; and the other, 

 although not quite fo high, is double the circuit of the 

 former. Thefe mounds bear fome refemblance to the 

 pyramids of Babylon, with this difference, that inltead of 

 being made entirely of brick, they are formed of clay and 

 pieces of tile, with irregular layers of brick and mortar, 

 five or fix feet thick, to fcrve, as it (hould feem, as a kind 

 of prop to the mafi. Large blocks of marble, bearing 

 hieroglyphics, are not unfrequently difcovered here by the 

 Arabs, when digging in fearch of hidden treafure ; and at 

 the foot of the mod elevated of the pyramids dands the 

 " tog:ib of Daniel," a fmall, and apparently a modern 

 building, erefted on the fpot where the relics of that pro- 

 phet are believed to red. 



Thefe ruins, according to major Rennell, reprefent the 

 celebrated city of Sufa ; but another didinguifhcd oriental 

 geographer controverts this opinion, and maintains that 

 Shuder, and not Shus, occupies the fituation of the ancient 

 metropolis of the Ead. The arguments alleged by major 



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Rennell in favour of his opinion are, id, the fimilarity of 

 name, and the fituation, which agrees better with the 

 didance between Sardis and Sufa, mentioned in the tablets 

 of Ariftagoras, than that of Shuder ; 2dly, the legend of 

 the prophet Daniel, whofe coffin was found at Shus ; and 

 3dly, that Sufa ought to be placed on a river, which has 

 its fource in Media. Dr. Vincent, in reply, fays, that the 

 fimilarity of name is a corroborating circumdance, when 

 we are fure of our pofition. But till the pofition be afcer- 

 tained, it is only a prefumptive proof, and often fallacious ; 

 and that Shuder approaches dill nearerthan Shus to Shufhan, 

 which is its title in Scripture, and Shudian differs not from 

 Sufa, but by the infertion of a dot in the letter Sch'm. To 

 the legendary tradition of the tomb of Daniel, little more 

 refpeft is due, as the learned doftor conceives, than to the 

 legends of the church of Rome and the Mahon:edan tra- 

 ditions. Sufa, he adds, was on the river Euleus ; Shuder 

 is more ancient than Shus ; Sufiana, the name of the pro- 

 vince, approaches nearer to Shuflian ; and Kuzidan, its 

 modern appellation, derived from, the mountains which 

 furround it, is evidently connected with the Kifii. Kufli, 

 and Koffii of the Greeks. Nearchus failed up to Sula, with- 

 out entering the Shat-ul-Arab, which he would not have done, 

 if that city had dood on the Kerah ; and when Alexander de- 

 fcended the Euleus, he fent his difabled fliips through the cut 

 of the Hafar, into the Shat-ul-Arab ; and, finally, a drong 

 reafon for placing Sufa at Shuder occurs in Ebn Haukul, 

 who fays, that there is not in all Kuzidan any mountain, 

 except at Shuder, Jondi Shapour, and Ardz ; and as the 

 cadle of Sufa is reprefented by hidorians as a drong place, 

 it is reafonable to fuppofe that it dood upon a hilL Mr. 

 Kinneir, in his " Geographical Memoir on the Perfian 

 Empire," has examined with critical fkill and great can- 

 dour the objeftions of Dr. Vincent, and the principles on 

 which they are founded ; and the relult is, that he inclines 

 to favour the opinion of major Rennell, in fupport of which 

 he cites the authority of Strabo, who fays, that the 

 Perfian capital was entirely built of brick, there not being 

 a done in the province ; whereas the quarries of Shuder 

 are very celebrated, and almod the whole of the town is 

 built of done, but there is no fuch thing in the environs of 

 Shus, which was anciently formed of brick, as appears 

 from our author's dcfcription of the pyramids that dill 

 remain. However the quedion concerning the fcitc of 

 the city of Shus be determined, it is now a gloomy wilder- 

 nefs, infcded by lions, hyxnas, and other beads of prey. 



SHUSJIMI AN, a town of Perfia, in Khoradan ; 6 miles 

 N. of Maru. 



SHUSTER, a province ordidrift of the Perfian empire, 

 condituting one divifion of Kuzidan, or Chufidan, the 

 other being formed by the territories of the Chab Sheikh. 

 I'lie latter extend from the banks of the Tab to the conflux 

 of the Karoon and Abzal, and from tlicfhoie of tiie Perfian 

 gulf to a range of hills which (kirt the valley of Ram 

 Hormuz to the fouth. The mod fertile fpots ir. this dif- 

 tritt are thofe in the environs of Dorak, the capital of the 

 Chab prince, and on the banks of the Hafar and Shat-ul- 

 Arab. Here dates and rice are produced ; and hence the 

 Slieikh Mahomed derives his principal revenues. The wheat 

 and barley that are grown are fcarcely fuflicicnt for the 

 fupply of the inhabitants. The rice harved is in Auguft 

 and September, and tliat of other grain in April and May. 

 The nortlicrn and wcdern parts of the country afford tole-, 

 rable padurage ; and here the wandering tribes, which 

 compole the ))rincipal part of the population, ]>itcli their 

 tents. Both bank"; of the Karoon, from its juiidtion with 

 the Abzal, eight furfungs below Shuder, to the ruins of 

 4 L Sibla. 



