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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [280v] (565/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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SHI—SHI
Beyond the plain in which Shiraz is situated rise the dark bare
mountains, snow-crowned. Stack considers the most remarkable relics
of antiquity near Shiraz to be three wells on a rocky hill, 2 miles
north-east of the city. No one knows who made them.
Probably they are older than the Muhammadan conquest. The hill
is about 500 feet high, and very steep. It seems to be composed of
sandstone and limestone. Two of the wells are on the side facing
the city. These are the deepest. The mouth of the larger of the two
is about 7 feet by 5, and its depth nearly 500 feet. The shaft evi
dently sinks through the whole depth of the hill. It is hewn in
the solid limestone and very smoothly cut ; the sides are perfectly
plump. The third well at the back of the hill has seats, or ledges, cut
in the rock above it. Remains of old fortifications encompass the
summit of the hill. From the topmost peak the whole plain of Shiraz
can be seen, and the salt lake of Mahalu 20 miles to the east.
The plain is well watered, fertile, and green, and miles of orchards
cover its western end. Shiraz city is a compact area in the landscape,
overhung with smoke, and adorned by three blue domes. The articles
of manufacture and commerce in Shiraz are arms, cutlery, glassware,
ornamental pencases, silver and gold pipes, tobacco pipes, cotton cloths,
cotton and woollen stockings, and wine.
The wine of Shiraz is freely made and sold publicly by the Arme
nians. It is of two kinds, red and white. The former tastes like
rough and coarse sherry, and the latter like a moist thin chablis.
It is kept in large jars and sold in glass bottles of various sizes,
holding from a quart to two or three gallons. The manufacture of
these bottles gives employment to a large number of people.
An extensive branch of industry is the making of Kaliuns, some of
which are very beautifully worked in the precious metals.
The bowls are generally formed of a cocoanut, the more costly de
scription mounted with silver and gold. The prices vary from Is. to
£30. The Kaliun supersedes the pipe in Persia. The tobacco grown
in the neighbourhood of Prinj is of good quality.
The art of enamelling also is practised here to some extent, and
sham articles of jewellery, the execution of which is very delicate.
The metals used are silver and gold. Carpets used formerly to be
made at Shiraz, but of late years the manufacture has declined, and
now only those of a coarse texture are manufactured.
The yield of crops in the Shiraz plain for 1879-80 is estimated at
20,000 shah mans, equal to 1,300 cases. Ross, in his Report for
1879-80, gives a memorandum on the cultivation of a village in one of
the subdivisions of Shiraz.
Besides Karind, Shiraz is the chief locality where native cutlery can
be procured. Although Shiraz is a trade name given to fine tobacco,
it is not much grown there.
In regard to communication with the sea at Bushahr, although only
190 miles intervene, six severe passes have to be surmounted, and at
two spots the track rises to an altitude of 7,000 feet, and on this
538
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
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The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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- ‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’
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