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CHAP. X.]
LAR1STAN.
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Wild Carmania, which has a close resemblance to Khorasan;
having, on about 200 square miles, only an occasional patch
of cultivation to break the dreariness of an extensive waste,
impregnated with salt, sparingly supplied with water; and,
as in the days of Ptolemy, without either towns or rivers. 1
Southward, however, the country is different; and 'Irak Lar and
Ajerm, or Carmania Felix, has much cultivation, Moghostan.
division includes the ancient kingdom of Lar on the S.W.,
and Moghostan on the S.E.; the coast line of both being
terminated by a lofty belt of rocks which rise into mountains.
The latter district is of a triangular shape, and takes its name,
Moghostan, or Date-tree wood, from the number of date trees
growing in the country. 2 Near the western extremity is the
river Anamis, now Minnow, or Mina-ab (blue-water), the
Harmozia of Nearchus, 3 from whence a beautiful fertile plain,
covered with orange-groves, orchards, and vineyards, 4 extends
to Minab, the chief town. This place is divided into three
parts, called the high, the low, and the middle; the houses
in all three are of wood, and the town is surrounded with
groves of date-trees. The Nebo of the Arabs (the Conar of
the Persians), a kind of soap plant, much used in the baths,
abounds in this province.
The ancient kingdom of Lar has been recently traversed Gamrdn.
along two different lines, from Gamrun (Gambroon), or
Bander Abbas, which is its principal port. This place,
though exposed to great heat and very unhealthy, contained,
as late as the visit of Tavernier, large factories belonging to
the English, Dutch, and French nations. 5
The shorter of the lines of route above alluded to passed Routes through
northward through Killatoo and the flourishing walled Lar-
towns of Taurem and Forg, extending as far as the fron
tiers of Fars, a distance of about 98 miles; the greatest
part of the country appeared to be well cultivated, and to
1 Ptolemy, book VI., chap. vi. 2 Ogilby's Asia, p. 31.
8 Lieutenant Kempthorne.—Vol. V. Part II., p. 274, of the Journal of the
Royal Geographical Society.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid., p. 276. Tavernier, p. 255.
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