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to steal the child ; one of the attendant women generally stands at the door,
when a child is being born, with a drawn sword in her hand to prevent the A1
from coming in.— {Schindler.)
ALLAHABAD (or ILLAHABAD)—
A ruined village with no water, 15 miles beyond Saugand or Su-kand,
on the road from Yazd to Biabanak on the northern border of Yazd.—
{MacGregor ; Gill.)
ALMALAS—
A prominent peak south of Haji ’All Khan, a village east of Sauj Bulagh,
in Kurdistan.— {Gerard.)
ALMASAKAl—(The apple-house.)
A village m Azarbaijan, near the north coast of Lake Urumieh, 12 miles
west of Tasfij.— {Gerard.)
ALMAKI—
A small village 31 miles north-west of Sultanieh on the road to Zinjan,
— {Schindler.)
ALUAK—
A small village 25 miles from Tehran a little to the left of the road to
Meshed and | mile beyond the Jajrad river.— {Schindler.)
ALUCHAMULK—
A village with 60 Armenian families, 22| miles north of Tabriz in Azar
baijan.— {Schindler.)
ALUH-AMUT.—(“the eagle’s nest.”).
A sub-district north-west of Tehran. It is enclosed by a high range to the
north, which soparates it from G-ilan and Mazandaran ; on the south is the
Pusht Kiih range, on the east are Elburz and Siyalan, on the west is Rudbar.
It is about 30 miles in length, by 20 miles in breadth.
In this district is situated the famous rock of Aluh-Amut, 32 miles from
i Kazvin and about 63 miles north-west of Tehran. The ruins of the castle of
Hasan Sabah, theredoubtedchief of the Assassins are on the top of the rock ;
the ridge on which they stand is about 300 yards in length from east to west,
and very narrow, not 20 yards at the top. The height is about 200 feet
pn all sides, except the west, where it may be 100. It is a bare rock exceed
ingly steep. There are no habitations in the vicinity nearer than the village of
Gazar Khaueh about two miles to the south, nor are there any traces of ruins.
Within a short distance of the rock, there is a burial ground. There are some
cisterns on the rock to catch rain water.
The vicinity of the rock is a most dreary solitude; excepting eagles and
lizards, not a living thing is to be seen, nor even a single tree. The view
from the summit of the rock is very fine, embracing nearly the whole of the
valley of Aluh-Amut, and all the high mountains by which it is enclosed.
It is sometimes called “ A1 Mowut” and “ Allah-amout,” which latter signifies
eagle s nest in the language of the province in which it is situated.-—
{Sheil ; Malcolm • Schindler.)