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JANDAK — Lat. 34° 1 '. Elev. 3,400'.
A town containing between two and three hundred houses. It is situated
on a gravel slope from the north foot of the lofty range which extends
from Farukhi to Jandak, and on which are the lofty peaks of Buneh Sada
and Devi-Dun. Around the town, within a radius of 6 or 7 miles are a
number of hamlets or mazra’ehs said to number thirty, each with its own
cultivation and stream of water. Jandak contains a large and ancient
fort bearing a strong resemblance to a mediaeval castle. It is in a dila
pidated condition. It has a large door, which the people said had been
constructed from the timbers of one of the ships that sailed on the pre
historic Darla-i-Saveh, which is supposed at one time to have covered the
Salt Desert.
The place is well watered by no less than three handt streams.
The revenue of the town is 250 tumdns, the adjacent mazra’ehs owing to
an old law, paying no taxes at all.
Supplies, sheep 6,000 and goats 12,000. There are extensive crops of
wheat and barley. Bhiisd and grain are procurable. Firewood is abun
dant, but has to be brought in from the sand some miles off.
Transport 1,000 camels and about 100 donkeys. The best grazing
grounds, where the transport, if not in use, and the flocks are to be found
at this time of year (October), are in the Rig-i-Kaleh, a chain of immense
sandhills stretching along the foot of the mountain chain north of Farukhi
and Chah Malik, and between it and the kavlr. There is abundant graz
ing and firewood, while water is procured by sinking wells.
Jandak is the place at which a force, before crossing the desert in a nor
therly direction, would collect supplies and rendezvous in small columns;
these would have to advance on it by separate routes owing to the
scarcity of water and supplies en route. — (Vaughan, 1S90.)
JANJIREH or ZANJlREH—
; A small village in Azarbaijan between Maraud and Kh6I. It is prettily
situated in a nook at the foot of a range of hills. A stream of water runs
through it, the water of which, intercepted by numerous channels, is car
ried off to irrigate the numerous gardens round.— (Ussher.)
JANKHUSH—
Pronounced Junkhush.
An important village in the Burbarud district of the Burujird province,
on a tributary of the Ab-i-Diz, and 70 miles from Burujird to the right of
the road thence to Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
JAN-NISAR—
A small stream joining the Kangarshah river a few miles north of Bistantu
near Kirmanshah.— (Vide Dinavar.).— (Napier.)
JlPALAK—
A district crossed on the road from Isfahan to Burujird via Nimagird
and Malikabad. It comprises the sub-districts of Sarlak, Ashnakhur,
Barbarud, etc. It has 245 villages, inhabited by about 6,000 families, 500
of which are Armenians.