'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎259r] (522/652)

its southerly turn for the coast hills, ascending a steep defile on the right
bank. “ From the top of this was a grand view of the broad blue river,
winding through a grassy, well-wooded bottom, hemmed in on both sides
by fine hills.”
The kdfileh route continues down the river, and would probably strike the
telegraph road in the plain at 16 to 20 miles. That followed by Floyer
was a short cut across the hills towards the G-abrig river. He reached the
plains under the HunI hills, 52 miles from Jashk, after about 20 miles of
very rough travelling without a guide.
After emerging from the hills, the Sadaich, like the other rivers which
cross the plain to the sea, cuts a constantly changing route through the
sand strip. Where crossed by the telegraph road, its bed is only about 400
yards wide, and the running stream is considerably less than up among
the hills, as so much of the water is absorbed by the soft, sandy soil. What
remains is thick and muddy, very different from the clear delicious fluid
in the upper course of the river.
The actual bed is rich silt, which might be made to bear heavy crops.
Crossing is often difficult owing to the muddy nature of the bottom.
After a storm the river is often a raging muddy torrent, 200 yards across,
and impassable for several days.— {Floyer.)
The halting-place on the Sadaich is 11 stages, about 145J miles from
Chahbar, and 14 stages (63J miles) from Jashk. Water is abundant from the
river; there is also a well at Gilik {q.v.), 6 or 7 miles east. Firewood and
camel-grazing are abundant. The country in the neighbourhood is all fiat,
sandy plain.— {Pierce.)
SAFIDAVA—
Eight small springs of rather brackish water on the slopes of the Palangar
Kuh, 60 miles from Girdi Chah and 30 from ’Aliabad on the way round the
Sistan Hamun.— {Keyes, 19C4.)
safIdganj—
In the Darusar division of Persian Baluchistan there is a steep sharp-
pointed cone of “ shur ” clay running up more than 600 feet high, exceed
ingly regular in shape, and forming a remarkable landmark in the Zamia
Mulla plain of Western Bashakard, called the Safidganj.— {Floyer.)
SAFID KHANEH—
A small hamlet of 13 houses, 18 miles north-north-east of Daulatabad
(Bandar Abbas-Kirman rout#). Livestock: 10 donkeys, 40 cattle,
500 sheep and goats. Cultivation : wheat and rice, in small quantities.
Firewood, grass, and bhusd are procurable. Good water from a kdriz
and Lrge spring. There is a burj close by where 10 men are located by the
Shahs ciders for protection of the road —{Sher Jang, 1902.)
SAFlD KUH— Elev. 8,455'.
A long range of hills in Persian Baluchistan, forming part of the eastern
scarp of the Sarhad plateau. The range may be said to begin a little to
the north of Jalk, though it is here known as Jalk Band, thence continuing
in a north-west direction; the range is known as Dulogh Band, Darrahi