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FARIlB or PARIAB—
A halting-place in Kirman, 65 miles from Bandar Abbas, on the road to
Bam. There are some date plantations, but no houses. The camping-
ground is unusually good, elevated and dry, with excellent water and abun
dance of firewood, shaded by fine jambul tiQzs—(Goldsmid ; Euan-Smith ;
Rozario.) —See also Pariab.
FARIAB (River)—
A tributary of the Manujan river. The town of Rodun is situated on the
left bank of this river.— {Jennings, 1885.)
FARIAB—
A small village of 26 houses, 37 miles north-north-east of Minab on the
Fariab river. Cattle 50, goats and sheep 1,000. Water good .—{Sher
Jang, 1902.)
FARIDUN— (Kirman)—
A village about 7 miles from Kirman. It has an ancient avenue of
chindrs (plane trees), and an old graveyard, with inscriptions on the
tombs in a character which cannot be deciphered.— {Stack.)
FATILU JARI—
A date-grove in the Shamil district {q.v.).
FATTUHRAN (Kirman)—
A high peak, seen from halting-place on Hallli river, on the Rigan-Minab
road.—( Jennings.)
FAZM or PAZM (Persian Baluchistan)—
A port on the coast of Makran, near Chahbar.— {Hdji Abdul Ndbi.)
FEHRABAD—
A village in the Minab district {q.v.).
FEHRAJ (Prowownced F AHREH)—Lat. 28° 57'; Long. 58° 52'; Elev.
2,300'.
A village of about 300 houses in the Narmashir district of Kirman, 22 miles
north of Rigan, and 10 miles east-north-east of ’Azizabad, on the road from
the latter place to Nasratabad. It is the last village on the south-western
side of the Lut and stands close below, and on the south side of the low irre
gular hills which form the south-eastern end of the Kfih-i-Kaput range.
Between Fehraj and the Kuh-i-Kaput passes a sluggish and reed-fringed,
but nameless,* river which rises in the slopes of the Jamal Bariz and, run
ning roughly north-eastwards past ’Azizabad, finally loses itself in the
Shurgaz Hdmiin in the Lut. Its bed is here about 200 yards wide, and ite
waters are said to be brackish. Fehraj is the head-quarters of the
Persian administration of Baluchistan. A telephone house in charge of a
ghuldm and 10 other houses lie on the other side of the stream.
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* The latest map cal’s it ‘ Rudkhaneh Narmashir,’
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