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in the neighbourhood. Water is obtained from a stream with a 6" x 2"
section, flowing 3 miles an hour and filling a fair-sized tank.— (Vauyhan,
1887.)
HUSAINABAD (9)— Lat. 30° 37' N.; Long. 50° 29' E.; Elev.
A village in the Behbehan province of Ears situated on the right bank
of the Martin river, 5 miles north-west of Behbehan town. The village is
small but has extensive gardens. It contains 300 inhabitants of the
Khajehat tribe whose occupation is the cultivation of dates, rice and
linseed. Resources : 20 cows, 100 donkeys, 70 sheep. The Marun river is
forded here, but the crossing is difficult, impossible without a guide. The
left bank is about 20 feet high, and the river is 100 yards wide, 4 feet deep
and with a current running at 4 miles an hour.— {De Bode — Hopkins, 1903.)
HUSA NAB AD (10) — Lat. Long. Elev.
A band or weir of the Band Amir river (q.v.) in the Marvdasht plain of
Ears.— {Hopkins, 1903.)
HUSAINABAD (ID— Lat. 29° 43' N. ; Long. 52° 30' E. ; Elev.
A village in Ears, 8 miles north-north-west of Shiraz, on the road to
Guyum. The village is 80 yards square and is built of mud. It lies only
1 mile outside the gardens of Shiraz.— {Hopkins, 1903.)
HUSAINABAD (12)— Lat. Long. Elev.
The name of the range of hills in Ears, crossed by a pass, between the
Shu valley and that of Shish Pir, elevation 8,600 feet.— {Durand.)
HUSAINABAD (13)— Lat. 29° 53' N.; Long. 52° 35' E.; Elev.
A village in Ears, 26 miles west by south of Abadeh and near the western
border of the Marvdasht plain. It is one of a cluster of villages, each one
small and walled, which are dotted all over a small valley here, each contain
ing on the average a population of 100 inhabitants. There is a small mud
fort here belonging to a Turk. In a good year supplies of all kinds are obtain
able, but in some years swarms of locusts do great damages to the crops.
The water-supply is good and there is plenty of good camping-ground.
The neighbouring hills furnish an abundance of firewood.— {Stotherdf
1893.)
HUSAINABAD (14)—Lat. 26° 39' N.; Long. 54° 25' E.; Elev.
A place in the Lingeh district {q.v.).
HUSAINABAD (15)— Lat. 30° 30' N. ; Long. 55° 50' E. ; Elev.
A village in Kirman between Khush Kuh and Bahramabad on the Yazd*
Kirman road.— {Smith.)
HUSAINABAD (16)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A deserted village in Kirman, 25 miles east-south-east of Azizabad on
the road from there to Chah Ahmad.— {Moore, 1904.)
HUSAINABAD (17)— Lat. 30° 20' ; Long. 56° 59' ; Elev.
A village in Kirnaan, 7| miles west of the city of that name, on the road
to Khinaman. It is the district of Kavlr.— {Sykes, 1900.)