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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎287r] (578/988)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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SHI—SHI
906
Wing due, not to any change in the direction of the range, which is nearly
straight, but to a gradual though irregular trend of the coastline away from
the hills. The name “ Shibkuh ” means “ below the hills/ - ’ The islands
of Shaikh Shu^aib, Hindarabi, Qais and Farm - are attached for administra
tive purposes to the Shibkuh district.
Physical Geography. —The disposition of the ranges composing this hilly,
littoral tract has been made clear by recent surveys; previously it was
not well understood. The dominant feature of the whole district is the
great maritime range of Southern Persia, which, forming a tangent to the
sea near Kangan runs thence south-south-eastwards without interruption
and almost without change of direction, until it falls into the sea on
the coast between Lingeh and Khamlr at a point immediately north of
Basldu: the distance from Kangan to this place is about 210 miles.
The range throughout is composed of masses of limestones which have a
quaquaversal dip, and rise in places to as much as 5,0#0 feet above sea-
level. The principal summits are Kuh Marakishti (in the Admiralty chart
called Jabal Siri, ^Ayanat or Barn Hill) 4 miles inland from Mlanlu,
height 4,660 feet; Sir-i-Yafal (in the Admiralty chart called Sin Yafal or
J Asalu Notch) 6 miles inland from Nakhl Taqi and 4,870 feet high; and
Jabal Taranjeh 20 miles inland from Gurzeh, elevation 5,150 feet. We
may here notice that a great trough, co-extensive with the portion of
the maritime range just described, adjoins the range on its inland side,
and is divided into two parts by a watershed which is behind Tahir! on the
coast. Portions of this great valley are still unsurveyed, but the part of
it to the north-west of the watershed seems to drain to the upper course
of the Mund river, while the major or south-western part apparently runs
straight in the opposite direction to Clarence Strait, the channel between
Qishm island and the main. The valley contains 3 places of some im
portance, whose trade with the outer world is conducted through Shibkuh
Ports; they are Gallehdar, 8 miles from the sea at a point rather nearer to
J Asalil than to Tahirl; Tarakameh, 20 miles inland from Shry u ; and IshkanI,
22 miles from the coast at Maqam.
It remains to describe the sub-features of the Shibkuh tract between the
main range and the Persian Qulf. From Kangan as far as ' Asalu, a little
over 40 miles, the main range immediately adjoins the coast and presents to
it a face apparently precipitous, on which, however, the fires of charcoal
burners are seen to twdnkle at night. Immediately below ’Asalu isNaband
bay, and from there to another but less pronounced bay at Maqam—a
distance of about 60 miles—--the coast lies parallel to the foot of the main
range at about 20 miles from it, the intervening space being occupied by
the Gabandi valley which rises immediately inland of Shiyu, and, skirting
the foot of the main range, reaches the sea at the foot of Naband bay. The
Gabandi valley is separated from the coast by a sandstone ridge, called
Shahln Kuh, which is nowhere more than a mile or two from the shore,
and in the neighbourhood of Shiyu attains its maximum' height of 1,100
feet. This ridge continues along the coast till Maqam, when the littoral
making a fresh echelon seawards, it is left at some distance inland, and
almost immediately terminates about 16 miles due east of Maqam. Between
Shiyu and Maqam, rather nearer to the latter, is a gap in the sandstone

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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.

The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).

Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.

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1 volume (490 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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