'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎153r] (310/982)

along the foot of the KQh-i-Nissar, which is south-west, for about 15 miles.
There are some ruins which give some colour to this very doubtful state
ment. —( Duran d.)
FARS or PAKISTAN Province—
A southern province of Persia and one which, both in name, history and
population, has the best_right to be regarded as Persia Proper and as the
central hearth-stone of Iran.
Extent. —The boundaries of Pars are as hard to define accurately as its
administrative arrangements. The province may be taken approximately
as lying between 27° 20' and 31° 41' latitude, and 50° 10' and 55° 15' longi
tude, and having the shape of a quadrilateral, each side of which is about
220 miles. The superficial area is said to be 44,335 geographical miles.
Starting from a point a few miles north of Bandar Dilam on the coast
of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the western boundary coincides first with the limits
of the Hindian district of ’Arabistan. From about the junction of lati
tude 31° with longitude 50° it turns north-east, separating the Qashqai
country, which it includes, from the land of the Bakhtiari, and passing
the northern point of Kuh-i-Dinar and including Basaki, meets the southern
frontier of Iraq’Ajami on the Isfahan-Shiraz road a short distance south
of Aminabad, and half-way between that village and Yazd-i-Khast. In
denting to the north and then turning south-east the boundaries of Pars
and Iraq ’ Ajami coincide, until Abrquh is passed and the province of Iraq
Ajami gives way to that of Kirman, whose western boundary meets
that of Pars, some miles west of Isfinabad in the Icavir or sand desert.
The joint boundary now runs south-east to Abu Bakr, where the most
northern point of the Laristan Province is met. Turning south-west
to Niriz and then slightly eastward to Darab, the remainder of the east
ern boundary of Pars is co-terminous with the western limit of Laristan ;
the same district accompanies Pars on the south, as the southern boundary
now runs west and slightly south to Jahrum, finally turning more south
ward and meeting the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. about Tahiri in the Shib
Kuh District of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Ports. The southern boundary thence
forward is the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , which, turning the promontory formed by the
Nakhilu shoal and Jabrin island, turns north-north-west past Bushire and
Bandar Rig, and returns to its starting point north of Bandar Dilam.
In the southern boundary, however, are included the two islands of Kharak
and Khargu, which lie in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. off the coast of the Haiat-
Daud District.
Physical Geography.—Pax* may be divided, physically and climatically,
into two divisions, the Garmsir and the Sardslr, or the lands of the warm
climate and the cold climate.
The former is the tract which extends from the sea coast to the latitude
Garmsir. of K ^ zarGn > an d runs parallel to the Persian
Gulf from the banks of the Hindian river to
the confines of Laristan. This includes the Dashtistdn, or plain land at
the foot of the mountains. These lands are entirely dependent upon the
periodical rains, and, when the latter prove abundant, yield a good por
tion of dry grain; but when there is a failure in the rains, which