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it. The main cultivation is rice, and the villagers own a few cows and goats.
There is a good but limited camping-ground. The water-supply is excellent
and a fair amount of firewood is available.
From here a road branches off southwards to Qir (7 farsakhs, 25 miles) dis
tant. Stack describes the place as a small fort.— (Stack, 1881 — Stotherd,
1893.)
SHALGEHIBUZURG— Lat. 32 0 16' N. Long. 48° 32'E. Elev.
A village in Northern ’Arabistan, 12 miles south-south-east of Dizful.
It contains 55 houses and a fort, and is inhabited by Kurds, Dizfulis, and
Bakhtiari of the agricultural class. It musters a fighting strength
of 200 men with 14 rifles.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHALGEHl KtTCHAK— Lat. 32° 16'N. Long. 48° 32'E. Elev.
A village in northern ’Arabistan, 600 yards from Shalgehi Buzurg.
It contains 22 houses and a fort, and is inhabited by Bakhtiari cultivators.
The villlage musters 50 fighting men with 5 rifles.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer.
1908.)
SHALlL— Lat. 31° 45' N. Long. 50° 33' E. Elev. 5,500'.
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). in the Bakhtiari country. It marks the 8th stage from
Isfahan (138 miles) of the Bakhtiari caravan road, and stands on the left bank
of a stream of the same name, at a point about 2 miles above its junction with
the Ab-i-Bazuft at Pul-i-’Amarat. The caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). stands 400 feet above the
Ab-i-Bazuft. It is built of rubble masonry and there are about 40 square yards
of rooms, walls and stables, 15 feet high, roofed with heavy chindr beams.
On the hillsides are limestone rocks which are burnt for lime at the caravan-
serai. The accommodation in the serai is very restricted, but there are seve
ral good camping-grounds between it and the bridge at Pul-i-’Amarat, the
■ nearest being a narrow strip on the left bank of the stream from the serai to
400 yards and upwards. There is no source of supplies immediately at
hand, the result being that this caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). is usually very badly pro-
1 vided. Supplies come from the Bazuft valley. The retail selling price per
Shahl man of 13 lbs. in October and November, 1906, was—for barley P50
krdns—bhusd 50 krdns —rnd bread 2-50 krdns. The stream is about 20 feet
wide and fordable opposite the serai. Temperature in and out of doors on
6th August, 84° to 100°.
The Shalil plateau is about 4| miles east of the serai and has a large area
•v of rice cultivation and many irrigation channels.— (Burton, 1903 —•
Arbuthnot, 1905 — Lorimer, 1906.)
SHALlL, AB-I—
A small stream in the Bakhtiari country, rising from the southern spurs of
the Garreh mountain. In a course of some 10 miles at most, it first flow’s in
a southerly direction, but makes a sharp bend almost due west at a point
about 2 miles before it reaches the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , to which it has given its
name, and about 4 miles before it is lost in the waters of the Ab- -Bazuft,
at the Pul-i-’Amarat. There is a small village of the same name near its
source and a few habitations at its bend to the west.— (Arbuthnot, 1905).