'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎290v] (597/820)

MIS—MUH
558
MISHMAST (No. 1)—
A tribe of ’Arabs, who inhabit the district of Turshiz, Khorasan. They
belong to the Jumali tribe, but got this name, which signifies “ the wanton
sheep,” from having entered into a war about a sheep.— (Malcolm.)
MISHMAST (No. 2)—
A section of the Timuri tribe in Khorasan.— (Mania BaJchsh.)
MUCHINAN—
A village in the It ad k an sub-division of the Meshed district of Khorasan,
11 miles from Radkan, a little to the right of the road to Kuchan. It has
a population of 100 families of Turks who own 50 cattle, 300 sheep and goats,
50 camels and 30 horses. The annual production of wheat and barley
is 6,300 and 4,500 Indian maunds, respectively.^— (Schindler', Oranof}sky, 1894.)
MUGHAN (No. 1)—
A village in the Zirustak sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam, 1 mile south
Shahrud. — (Schindler).
MUGHAN (No. 2)—
A village in the Ardameh sub-division of the Meshed district in Khora
san, 24 miles south of Meshed. Contains 300 houses and five orchards.
There is said to be a curious cave in a hill near the village, about which many
fabulous stories are told. It is built on cne of the streams that form the
Turuq tank. Supplies and water abundant.— (Mania Bakhsh.) — WatsoUy
1908.)
MUGHRI—
A pass in Khorasan over the Maisur hills leading from the Nimbuluk to
the Gunabad valley.— (Belew.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 1)—
A small village situated on a spur of the hills about four miles south-west
of Meshed. The qandt and the extensive lands attached to it were formerly
called Ma'jum, but when the late Haji Mirza ’Abbas Khan, C.M.G., C.I.E.,
bought them, he built the present village and called it after the name of his
son Muhammad Khan, to whom the estate now belongs. The water of the
qandt was so plenti ul at first that it irrigated lands as far as Baba Kudrat,
outside the Idgah gate of the town, but the having fallen out of repair
the water-supply has decreased cons'derably. In the lands belonging to
this village there are large beds of “ Gach i Siah ” (earthy deposits of
gypsum used as mortar for building purposes).— {Mania Bakhsh.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 2)— Lat. 37° 19' 30"; Long. 58° 59' 40*
Elev. 1,200' — (Napiei).
A village in Khorasan, and the chief place in the district of Darreh Gaz. It
is contained within double walls, which enclose about 1,200 houses, all of
the poorest description. There are two gates to the iener wall—one on the
south called Bala Darvazeh, and the other on the north called Pain
Darvazeh ; they are connected by a street, with trees down the centre, in
which are the shops of the place. The former town seems to have occupied