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with an effloresence of salt, and partly of firm sand, the former predomi
nating on the right bank, the latter on the left. At the crossing the water,
which is salt, is some 60 yards in breadth and about 3 feet in depth.
The river empties itself into the Clarence Straits which lie between the
island of Qishm and the mainland, and from a few miles north of Latidan
down to its mouth it flows nearly due south. Above this point its
course is not known with any certainty. The survey map shows it as
rising to the east of Lar and following a semi-circular course through un
explored country down to Latidan, while according to Curzon’s . map it
rises near Furg and, after flowing east-south-east for some 45 miles, turns
nearly due south, which direction it maintains until it reaches the sea.
Opposite to Latidan the river is spanned by two bridges, said to have
been built by Haji Khulassia, an Isfahan Khan, some 150 or 200 years
ago. One of these was described by Butcher at the time of his visit in
1888 as a substantial stone erection with 33 piers and semi-circular arches,
but both are now (1905) in bad repair and useless. Half a mile higher up
the river is cxosstdibyzioidi.—[Butcher, 1888—Curzon—Shakesyear, 1905.)
SHUR (River) (2)—
A salt water stream in Laristan, which flows south-east, and is crossed
by the road from Furg to Lingeh, 6|- miles south of the former town.
Its bed is gravelly and full of boulders, and, where crossed by the road,
the stream is about 30 miles wide with a depth of 3 feet in the centre and
a rapid current. Half a mile above this point it is joined by the Furg
stream, which comes down from the north, past the town of the same
name .
The waters of the latter stream are fresh and full of fish, and it is easily
fordable anywhere.—(FawgrThm, January 1888.)
N OTE This and Shur (River) (1) are meant to be descriptive of the same stream.
SHURAB {l)—Vide LABEHRl (SHUR-I-).
SHURAB (2)—
A small brackish stream in Luristan. It flows through the country
of the Judald division of the Bala Girieh tribe from east to west, and
through a defile of the same name which has an elevation of 5,550 feet.
— {Schindler — Rabino, 1905.)
SHURAB (3)—
A village at the western extremity of the Chehar Mahal district, and
immediately north of the Zardeh Kuh range.—(Stack.)
SHURAB or AB-I-SHUR (4:)—Vide LABEHRl (SHUR-I-).
SHURAB (5)— Elev. 7,750'.
A valley in the north-v/estern Bakhtiari country, through which runs
one of the sources of the Zindeh Rud. A salt spring is also found in the
centre of the valley. (Sawyer, 1890.)
SHURISH AB—Lat. Lokg. Elev.
A river frequently forded on the road from Malamlr to Khuzistan to
Baitavand, about 15 miles south-east of Shushtar.—(DeRode.)