172 Ibn HuohuVs account of Khorasan, [No, 2. 



Buhmunabad Map. 



Muzneyan, Muzeenoon of Eraser, a place surrounded by extensive 

 ruins. 



Subzwar is the central town of a district known as Beehuk ; found 

 by Eraser a field of ruins, with the tombs of several saints of Eslam 

 alone preserved, said to have been built by Sasan ben Buhman. 



Kewaduh, probably the Eewat of the Maps. 



Esfurayun, a district thirty, or forty miles N. E. of Subzwar, both 

 names are now used in common. The Nozhut-ul-Koloob mentions a 

 large stone vase of four yards in diameter as a curiosity. 



Khuer Khan very doubtful, unless it be Khur or Khuer Shah 

 twenty miles from Azadwar on the road to Neeshapoor, a place of 

 the district of Joweeruh once a portion of Beehuk. 



Zurmuluh unknown and doubtful. 



Toos, is recorded by Eraser as exhibiting a large area of debris 

 surrounded by walls yet standing. The name and indeed the city are 

 ascribed to Toos ben Nuozur. This city has been ever celebrated 

 as the birth or resting-place of men of talents or of piety. The 

 poet Eerdousee, and numerous Mohummudan saints are buried 

 within its walls. 



Eadgan seen by Eraser about forty-three miles W. by N. of 

 Mushud. 



Taburoon, Burooghoor, Nookan, Sunabad. — The modern town of 

 Mushud, now a place of pilgrimage, has entirely arisen on the pro- 

 ceeds of the shrine ; it must occupy the position of the Sunabad 

 mentioned, the little detail given by our author of the shrine with 

 the absence of all mention of the tomb of Eerdousee at Toos, point 

 to a date prior to which the work must have been written. 



Merv. 



We have some account of this place in the travels of Sir Alexan- 

 der Burnes and party. They arrived at the river thirty miles below 

 the city and found it a fine stream, eighty yards wide, five feet deep^ 

 The country between the Oxus and this point having been a dry 

 arid plain. But round the town of Merv were scattered for miles 

 the remains of ancient forts and villages, with the marks of exten- 

 sive cultivation ; when this existed, the waters of the river were 

 nearly exhausted for irrigation. The houses of the villages and 



