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hours. The women are all employed in making “givas” or native shoes,
the upper of cotton is knitted on to a sole made of old rags and sinews
of sheep, it is very enduring and is used in one form or another through
out the country. The “07pas ^ are taken to Yazd and Isfahan; during
harvest time some 15 pairs are made daily, in winter about 25 pairs. The
price is from 2 to 5 krans a pair.— {Preece, 1892).
SURKH.—Vol. Ill, page 021.
A village in the Yagmish plain, Yazd, situated on the slopes of an
isolated hill to which it gives its name.— {Preece, 1892).
NADUSHAN.—Yol. Ill, page 478.
A town on the road between Yazd and Isfahan, 138 miles from the
latter place. It is a small walled town, with good buildings and gardens,
but a good deal of it is in ruins. The newest buildings are all outside
the walls. The hills immediately over the town to the east are very
curious and look like mud volcanoes. The streams of mud have passed
round the bases of the limestone' hills, leaving the peaks cropping out.
The town, which contains 400 houses (1,720 people) and is divided into
six mahalas or parishes, belongs to peasant proprietors, who pay 1,110
tomans taxes (200 tomans for grazing sheep and 810 for the six dungs). It
is watered from kanats, 200 jeribs in 24 hours; 700 kharwars (4,55,000
lbs.) of wheat and barley are sown yearly. In the town is a mill, and
there are 1,200 sheep and 100 oxen for the plough.—
{Preece, 1892).
SADRABAD.—Vol. Ill, page B07.
A village in Yazd, 8| miles south-south-east of Nadushan.—
{Preece, 1892).
GARDAN-I-SHAMSABAD.—Elev. 8,500'. Vol. Ill, page 246.
A pass, 21 miles east of Nadushan on the road between Yazd and
Isfahan.— {Preece, 1892).
ALIABAD.—Vol. Ill, page 54.
A village in Yazd lying under a hill of the same name on the direct road
from Yazd to Shiraz across the Aberguh desert.— {Preece, 1892).