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SAR— SAR
depopulated by the pirates. There is anchorage nearly all round the island,
but the ground is rooky and bad for holding ; the best is to the southward.
The island is surrounded by a reef, extending two-thirds of a mile off shore,
and it is about 4 miles long and broad.— {Bruchs.)
SARD KOH—wie ZARDEH KtH.
SAR FARIAB-— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Fars, two stages (50 miles) fromBehbehan, on the road
to Qumisheh.— {Wells.)
SAR GACH PASS— Lat. Long. Elev. 4,270'.
Is crossed by the road from Khurrainabad to Deh Bala as it nears the
Rudbar district of the Saimarreh. The approaches from either side are steep
and the path narrow, but, being of quartz and chalk rocks, it affords good
foothold. The path is merely a grassy spur from the Kiuveh hill to the
north. It is waterless and contains no trees of any description. —{Burton.)
SARGAH— Lat. • I Long. Elev.
A village fort in the Harvi district of Fars, half-way from Firuzabad to
Lar. Water scanty, and no supplies. The place has suffered considerably
from robbers of late years.— {Stack.)
SAR GAR A 0 RIVER—
Rises in the ravines of the Siah Kuh mountain of the Pusht-i-Kuh of Lur-
istan, and flows south-south-east across the stony and ruin-dotted plain
of Deh Luran. It there crosses theDizful road 103 mile! south-south-east
of Deh Bala, and in autumn is dispersed in many streams through a vast
acreage of Indian-corn, finally draining into the Mama river above the ruins
of Bial (?). At its source and where it crosses the road the stream is of an
emerald colour, and emits the most noisome, sulphurous fumes ; after
draining through the cultivation it is sufficiently purified to enable animals
to drink of its water. Among men it is tolerated only by Arabs.— {Burton.)
SAR-I-AB Lat. Long. Elev. 4,530' {Rivadeneyra.)
A halting-place on the road between Dizful and Khurramabad, about 13
miles from the latter in Luristan.
SAR-I-ABGILAN-Lat. Long. Elev.
The place of residence in the Kirmanshah Province of the Kalhur tribe,
{q. v.) known as the Begzadeh Siah Siah and Mutta Mulla Siah Siah ;
they only number a few families.— {Plowden.)
SAR-I-CHASHMEH— Lat. 31° 16' N. Long. 49° 41' E. Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district about 4 miles north-west of Ramuz town,
on a bearing of 315° from the west end of the same. It consists of 25 reed
huts of Ahl-i-Ramuz, with a few Arabs apparently of the Zubaid section of
the Al Khamis. The proprietor is the Muntazam-ud-Dauleh. Near this
place is a Shrine called the Masumeh-i-Khatun, erected in honour of a
woman.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)