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tion with which are two fords. The lower, about 500 yards down stream
is said to be useful in .summer. The upper is about 1 mile upstream at
a point, where a small water-course joins the Aras. The Persian bank is
steep and access difficult. Bottom of sand. There is the usual Cossack
guard.— (Picot, 1894.)
SHI-KURUCH— ,. , , *
A high hill on the east side of Karind. It is about 1,200 feet high and from
its summit the snow-capped hills of Bihistan above Kirmanshah are visible.
— {Taylor.)
SHILAYAR— _
A river in Gilan, falling into the Caspian between Hayir, and Karganrud
It is somewhat dangerous to ford on account of quicksands. Also a village o
the same name.— {Holmes.)
SHILA ZULIAT—
A village in western Kirmanshah, 30 miles west of that town, ihe
country of the Sinjabis extends to this point.—(PZowcfew.)
SHlMRUD— ,
A river of Gilan, which rises in the north slopes of the Elburz range and
enters the Salid-Rud near its mouth. On the road between Rasht and
Lahijan it is crossed by a lofty pointed bridge built of brick with two large
centre arches and two smaller ones on each side. The river here flows over
a gravelly bed; and though in December it is only about 60 yards broad and
fordable in many places, it bears the appearance of becoming a rapid torrent
in the spring.— {Holmes.)
SHINAYA—
A ruined village in Northern Kurdistan, 20 miles east of Raiat, on the
road to Khalisissar and Sauj Bulagh.— {Gerard.)
SHINDAN—
An abandoned fortress in Talish, on the road from Namln to Astara It
stands on the summit of a bare, isolated, and rugged rock, nearly /,000 feet
in height, and forms the leading feature of this range of mountains, it
forms the south-west point of Russian Talish.— {St. John.)
SHIRAMlN—
A village in Azarbaijan, 471 miles south-west of Tabriz, on the road to
Maragheh.— {Rawlinson: ; Morier.)
SHlRASHlAN—
A village 8 miles from Damghan, on the road to Kashan and Samnan.
SHIRGAH—
A village in Mazandaran, 25 miles south-west of Sari, on th* road to
kuh and on the right bank of the Talar river. It is situated m the midst
of a*most beautiful forest, and contains only ten families, who cultivate io
acres of rice, each acre producing 8 kharwdrs. They pay 110 tumans o
Government. Eastwick remarks that the men of the village were tal an
well-made.— {Todd ; Eastwick ; Ouseley.)
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