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DAB,—DAR
The cracks are filled in with a fine white layer of hard salt. The slabs are
to a very great degree transparent, and the surface is dotted with patches
of soft white salt resembling freshly fallen snow. It affords a firm and un-
slippery foothold. The salt contains a considerable amount of moisture,
a bag in which some was placed being speedily saturated. The salt con
tinues along the south borders of the lake for many miles. The ground
adjoining the salt is havlr or swampy soil with a salty efflorescence. The salt
commences on this in a cake { inch thick saturated with water and breaks on
being trodden on, but this rapidly gives place to a sheet firm as a rock.
If a hole is cut in the salt, water oozes up and fills the hole precisely
the same as with ice. I think it probable that these vast deposits of salt
absorbing all the moisture in the air may account for the extreme dryness
of the atmosphere in these parts.— (Vaughan, 1890.)
A salt lake, or marsh, which extends between Qum and Tehran, east
and west, for about 150 miles, and has a breadth of 35 miles in some places.
The roads through this morass are not easily distinguished, and the unfor
tunate wanderer runs the risk of either perishing in the swamps or dying of
thirst and heat.— (Kennier.)
DARlAN—
• A village at the northern end of the Shahu range in the buluk of Avroman
Lahun of Kurdistan.— (Schindler.)
DAR-I-BARU—
A range of hills in the Qasr-i-ShlrTn district, known also as Qamakavu
(q.v.). — (Soane, 1911.)
D AR-I-DIV AN—(1).
A range of hills in the Qasr-i-Shirln district (q. v.). — (Soane, 1911.)
DAR-I-DlYAN—(2).
A" long hill lying west and south-west of the Bannu mountain, and separat
ing north Bajlan from Sar Kaleh. Height about 700 feet above the level
of the plain. Wrongly called Daridelivan on the Indian Survey map.—
(Soane, 1912.)
DAR-ISHK—
A village in Yazd between Deh-i-Shir and’Aliabad, on the western road from
Shiraz to Yazd.— (MacGregor.)
DARISTAN—
A small village, 24 miles south-east of Kum (Qum).— (Persian Gazetteer,
1871.)
DARJAZlN. See Darreh-i-Gazin.
DARJAZIN—or DARREH-I-GAZIN (9.)
A buluk of Hamadan. About 50 villages, bordered eas" by Nubaran,
north by Sardarud, west by the Kanldagh mountains and south by Charm
and Darjazln districts of ’Iraq. The population is composed of Turks.