"بعثة لإجراء عملية مسح لنهري دجلة والفرات، تم تنفيذها بأمر من الحكومة البريطانية، في السنوات ١٨٣٥، ١٨٣٦، ١٨٣٧؛ تسبقها إشعارات جغرافية وتاريخية للمناطق الواقعة بين نهري النيل والسند. في أربعة مجلّدات. مع أربع عشرة خريطة ورسمًا، ومزينة بثلاث عشرة لوحة، بالإضافة للعديد من الرسومات بالحفر على الخشب. المجلّد الأول." [‎٧‎٩‎٠] (٩٠٥/٨٩٠)

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INDEX.
Shebrye, or haudag (a kind of palanquiu
carried by a camel), 683, 688
Shedad Ben 'Ad's palace (in Akhaf), 638
Sheep, long-tailed, of Arabia, 587
Sheeraunees, Afghan tribe, 176
Shehr 'All, district^ 350
'All Tagh, | or Gouger-houad, near
Mar'ash (part of Taurus), 293, 351
El, port of Hadramaiit, 636
Beg, town, lake,, and sanjak of, 344
or Shahr, port of, population, &c., of,
636
, capital of the district of Shehr, 637
Abu, or Bushire, port, 209
Ak, plain and sanjak, 344, 345
-—, lake (in Koniyeh eyalet), 346
, town, once Philomelum, 346
Akli Tagh, branch of the Taurus,
294
Allah, town (in Aidm a'yanlik), 309
Allah, or Cogamus river (in Aidm
a'yanlik), 310
, lake of, 346
—— Beg, sanjak of, 344
Ovah (on the eastern JaiMn), 298,
299
Shehrsor, district, taxes of, 258
Sheibani, valley, 467
Sheikh, Bi'r-es, 601
—, 'Adi (part of the Yezfdi), 113
, people, remains of Sabeanism among
the, 113
-al-Islam (ruler of the faith), 86, 233
, choice of the, 675
An (chief of the Izedi), 113
, Ismaili (tribe of Kurds), 251
Sheikhawi, mountains (in Shehr district,
territory of Hadramaut), 638
Sheiks in Arabia, their power and manner
of nomination, 675
, duties of, 675
Sheik's protection effectual, 676
Sheity, or Shutite, canal (the Muchircan of
Edrisi, near Shuster), 198
Shekagi, tribe of Kurds (in Azerbaijan),
251
Shekdof (a kind of large pannier carried
by a camel), 688
Sheki, khanat (part of Shirvan), 130, 136,
138
, mountains of, 137
Shekrateyn, village (in Asfr, district of
Yemen), 614
Shem, Chaldeans from, 92
Shemah Tagh, Mount Flambeau (westward
of Guzun), 292
Shemiramgerd, ancient city (of Armenia),
102
Shemitic, people and language of, 83
Shems, Shebeat-ben-, tribe (in the Chaab
country), 251
Sh&nshat, plain (in Kharput district), 271
Shemsia, a sect (of the Ansarians), 542
Shemskein, or Eshmiskin, town (on the plain
of the Haouran), 511
Sheree, town (of Kach'h), 182
Sheri'at-el-Kebir, or river Jordan, 400
Sheri'at-el-Mundhur, or Jarmuk and ancient
Hieromax, affluent (of the Jordan), 401,
507
Sherif-eddin founds an academy in the town
of Kaukeban (in Yemen), 616
Sherrah, civil courts in the cities of Persia,
233
Sheryan Tagh (peak of the Anti-Taurus),
68
Shevis Kari, or Dariyeh (the Caucasian
gates), 158
Shi'ah, belief, tenets, &c., of, 85, 86
Shibam, capital (of Hadramaut), 637
Shieban, mount (northward of San'd), 622
Shinar, plain, 117, 119
Shinkis, a tribe (of Kurdistan), 128, 250
Shiraz, basin of, 73
route through the Persian Apennines,
description of, 207, 208
, city, description of, 209
, the Ark or citadel of, 209
, commerce of, 209
Shirazi, seventh kind of coffee in Arabia,
621
Shfrvan, territory of, 129
, position of, 136
, between the river Kur and Azerbaijan,
136
, superficies of, 136
, soil of, 137
, northern valley of, 137
, central valley of, 137
, third valley of, 137
, three climates of, 138
, climate of the plain of, 138
, second and third climate of, 138
, wild and tame animals of, 138
, fisheries of, 138
, annual amount of the exports and im
ports of, 138
, Shamahkee, capital of, 138
, towns of, 138
, people of, 139
, ancient city of, 139
, population of, 139
, government of, 140
, Tartar language prevails in, 140
, manners and customs of the people of,
140
, name of, dates from the conquest by
Khusrau Nushiravan, 141
Shirwan, Abi, principal source of the river
Diyalah, 33, 34, 35, 194
Shiz, ruins, now Takhti Suleiman, once
Gaza, Azata, and the Atropatenian Ecba-
tana, 220, 221
Shohata, village (in Asir, district of Yemen),
614
Shohba (Dionysius), seat of the Druses of the
Haouran, 509
Shooshooah, island (in the Red Sea), 570
Shorawuk, valley (in Afghanistan), 167
Shoropan, district (of Imiretia), 149
Shunda, town (of Lower Chaldea), 94
Shus, or Sus, Kush, and Kushasdan (land of
the Sun and of the Magi), (the territory
within the river Araxes), 274, 280