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here is more bracing than that of Shiraz. In the hot season, it is very hot
in the middle of the day, but even at this time the nights are cool. In
winter the cold is severe, snow often lying on the ground for months to
gether. Intermittent fever oceursonly occasionally. The most common
diseases are diarrhoea, dyspepsia and ophthalmia.
There are lead mines in the neighbourhood.
Wilson who visited the place in 1907 describes it as a collection of villages
as under, owned by Sani’-ud-Dauleh, situated in abroad, fertile valley, about
50 miles north-west of Shiraz. Crops : wheat, barley, opium, sesame,
millet, vegetables. Irrigated everywhere. Surplus produce goes to Yazd,
but it is said that 500,000 mans are always stored in the district owing
to the difficulty in obtaining provisions.
Name.
Houses.
Population.
Oxen, pairs.
Number
of mans,
wheat and
barley.
Deh Nan .. .. ..
45
250
Murghab .. .. ..
200
900
Qadirabad
300
1,400
h A00 ..
900,000
Madar-i-SuIaiman ..
50
280
Kaleh Haji Ghulam . ,
10
40
Kurd-i-Shul
20
80
J
{Jones — Morier — Clerk — MacGregor — Odling — Newcomen, 1905— Arbuthnot,
1905—Wilson, 1907.)
MASHEH —Lat. 26° 33' N. ; Long. 54° 4' E.
A large village in the island of Qais, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , containing about 400
houses of the A1 ’All tribe, who are chiefly employed in the pearl fishery.
The village, built close to the shore, is of mat huts, excepting two square
forts of masonry, a quarter of a mile from the point, and a round tower, a
mile to the south of the point. It extends upwards of a mile along the sandy
shore of a bay formed between the north-east and east points : and the
pearl boats, when not at work, are hauled up on the beach in front of the
houses. There are a few date trees near the wells, a quarter of a mile
south of the square forts, and several banyan Merchant of Indian extraction. trees near the round tower.
Good water is procurable here ; also cattle, vegetables, etc. An agent of
the Shaikh of Charak lives in one of the forts, which was built in 1900.-—
{Constable — Stifle—Persian Gulf Pilot—Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
MASHlLEH—
A swamp bounding the promontory of Bushire on the east, and separat
ing it from the mainland {vide this Gazetteer—Busbire district ).—{Foreign
Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
MASHlZ— Lat. 29° 55' N. ; Long. 56° 33' E. ; Elev. 6,710*.
A town in the Kirman province, the capital of the Bardsir district. It
lies 41 miles south-west of Kirman city, on the road to Bandar ’Abbas vid