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NtJBAT CHAT—
A river in Talish (Gilan) flowing into the Caspian between Astara and
Haviz. It is a clear, shallow stream in the winter, about 20 yards broad,
with a sandbank generally at its mouth.— (Holmes.)
NU CHAM—
One of the four clans into which the ’Ali Illahl sect is divided.—
(Floyer.)
The people of Karind belong to this sect,
NUDAKANDEH—
A stream of Gilan flowing eastward into the Caspian, crossed about 18
miles north-west of Enzali, on the road to Astara.— (Holmes ; Todd.)
NU DARWAN-
One of the four clans into which the ’Ali Illahi sect is divided.—
(Floyer.)
NUDEHAK—
A small village of thirty houses in Mazandaran, 2£ miles from Nekah,
on the road to Sarai.— (Napier.)
NODUSHAN (1)— Elev. 6,300'.
A large village about 35 miles, nearly due west of Yazd.— (Sykes.)
NUDUSHAN (2)—
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 mahallahs or parishes, belongs to peasant
proprietors, who pay 1,010 tumuns taxes ( 200 tiimans for grazing sheep and
810 for the six dungs). It is watered from kandts, 200 jaribs, i.e., 24 hours ;
700 kharwdrs (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.)
NUGADEH—
A village, in'Azarbaljan, 40 miles east of Tabriz, on the road to Ardabil.—
(Fraser.)
NU GUMBAZ— Lat. 32° 41' 25"; Long. 53° 18'24"; Elev. 4,505',
A halting-place in the Yazd district, 19 miles south-east of Nam on the
Yazd-Kashan road 93 miles from the former and 108 from the latter
place.
From this point the road bifurcates, one branch leading direct to the
i Bilabad pass almost due west, and the other branch leading round to the
I same pass via Nam to the north-west.
There is a good caravansarai of Shah ’Abbas ; a post-house and walled
enclosure here, but no village. The water is saltish, and there is but a