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SIAN KALA. 
of Laylan, peopled by Kermani transferred from their paternal 
province in the south-east of Persia, by the late monarch Aga 
Mahomet Khan. Thence our course continued more to the 
eastward, soon crossing the wide bed of a mountain-torrent; and 
then ascending a short rocky pass, we found ourselves on a circular 
upland plain, partially cultivated; which, after an hour and half’s 
ride, conducted us to our menzil, at the foot of a branch of the 
Sehand mountains. This place is called Barney ; possessing 
about eighty houses embattled in mud-walls and towers. It is 
watered by the little stream Yaroo, one of the tributary channels 
to the river Jigatti. Six hours and a half was this day’s march, 
over a distance called six farsangs. 
August 26th. — Started at four o’clock this morning; keeping 
a direction about S. 30° E., crossing several low hills, and two 
or three small well-cultivated valleys. In two hours we came to 
the village of Choklooga, which stands on the banks of the brook 
Agerly, another arm of the Jigatti. After crossing it and its 
parent dell, we ascended the opposite hills; and continued 
amongst their winding little valleys for five miles, at the end of 
which we opened into the rich and ample vale of the Jigatti, 
where the river flows through it in a meandering, but north¬ 
westerly direction. Our road lay to the east of its banks, in a 
course S. 40° E.; and so, after two hours, passed the village of 
Mamajook, and the newly erected fort, flanked with towers that 
crowns the height in its back-ground. The produce of this fine 
vale seems chiefly castor, tobacco, and corn. Another hour 
brought us to the end of our day’s journey, namely Sian Kala, 
where we arrived after six hours and a half’s ride, over the 
usual distance of six farsangs. It is the capital of a considerable 
district, inhabited by the Afshars, a powerful tribe, spreading 
