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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎115v] (235/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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220
DAL—DAL
poorer, goat’s flesh. The diseases most common in the district are intermit
tent fever, which in autumn is sometimes so severe that it causes many
deaths—enlarged spleen, hepatitis, dyspepsia, infantile diarrhoea, and dis
eases of the eye, especially opthalmia. Other diseases also met with are
haemorrhoids, costiveness, dropsy, paralysis, especially hemiplegia, intestin
al worm (Ascaris lumbricoides are the most common, but oxyuris vermicvlaris
and Toenia solium &\so occur), asthma, bronchitis of old people, eczemas, sy
philis, diptheria, pertussis, measles, small-pox and probably typhoid fever.
Cases of heat apoplexy occur during the summer, especially to travellers.
“ Eye-diseases, usually commencing with ophthalmia, are the bane of this
district; probably one person in every four las lost the use ofcneeye. Total
blindness is by no means rare, and few have good vision in both eyes.
Often when a child is attacked, no treatment is sought, no trouble is taken to
keep the eyes clean, flies are allowed to settle on the eyes, per bops on ulcer
is left on the cornea ; this process is repeated until perhaps the ir's is
also affected or the whole body of the eye. It is no uncommon thing to see
a person with extensive opacities of the cornea, and with the pupil closed
or nearly so. Sometimes the eye is collapsed, and a history is told of acute in
flammation evidently purpulent ophthalmia, where sloughing of the cornea
and consequent blindness has occurred within 24 hours. On the whole I do
not think this district is especially unhealthy, though the summer is very
depressing and enervating, especially to Europeans.”— {Ousely — Malcolm —
Clerk —Monteith—Morier —Taylor — Felly — J ones — Stack — -Ussher—Durand
— Odling — Curzon—Routes in Persia, Section 1, Ed. 1898 —Persian Gulf
Gazetteer, 1908.)
DALAKl or DALIKl (River)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A river of Ears, which rises in the mountains to the south of Shiraz in
a ravine above Kazarun, and, after running southwards for some 25 miles
from the latter place, turns north-west near Tisgul and continues under
different names, the commonest of which it derives from the village of
Dalaki (q.v.) which it waters. Having reached the Dashtistan or plain-
land, it joins the Shapur river, the two falling into the Gulf to the north of
Bushire under the name of Rudhilleh or Rud-i-Shapur.-— (Curzon, 1889.)
DALAN (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A mountain situated north-east of Diz Malikan in Luristan. It is
described as lofty and precipitous. It is probably on the range of
Bakhtiar.—( Layard .)
DALAN (2) — See Pas Par Dalan.
DALAN (3)—Lat. 27° 20'N. Long. 55° 8'E. Elev.
A village standing in a valley about 1 mile broad, draining into the main
Jihun valley, from which it is visible for the whole of its length. The vil
lage is separated from the serai of Pas Par Dalan by a range of rocky hills,
100 feet high, over which a footpath runs. Supplies scanty. The village
contains about 50 houses and extensive date-groves; water from aque
duct and 2 cisterns.— (Wilson dnd Cruikshank, 1907.)

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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