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There is a small fort here, with 3 towers. The villagers own a few
donkeys and grow wheat, barley, a»d dates. There is an old shrine, the
history of which is obscure.— {Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
DARVlSHl— Lat. 28° 18' JSL ; Long. 51° 49' E. ; Elev. 350'.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 6 miles .south-south-east of
Shumbeh, on the main Bushire-Bandar ’Abbas road between Shumbeli
and Bao-han. It contains about 100 mud, stone, or mat huts, and some
400 inhabitants. The village, which is commanded by the hills on the
south bank of the river Rud-i-Mand, affords good supplies of wheat and
bailey, and fair grazing ; but fuel is scarce, and the water-supply, though
plentiful, is very brackish. There is a good camping-ground but it is
commanded as stated above. The river is liable to inundate the neighbour
hood in winter and spring. In summer it is dry. A road (from native
information) branches off from here to Pas-i-Rudak, whence two roads lead,
one to Firuzabad and the other to Jehrum-Natuks ; native information
also states that there is a footpath over the hills, practicable for infantry
only, to Daiyir, the general dire«tion being south by east, l en&t—{Butcher,
1888 — Winklehmer, 1891.)
DARYAZEIT-I-SA’Dl— Lat. Long. Elev.
The eastern gate of the city of Shiraz.—(OwseZe?/.)
DASHT on SAR-I-DASHT— Lat. 29° 39' N. ; Long. 55° 5' E.; Elev.
A village in Ears, on the road from Kirman to Shiraz, about 141 miles from
the former. It has 30 wretched huts, and a solitary tower, with a not
overabundant supply of brackish water. The name of the place means
“ stone ” in Turkish, from the fact of there being lead mines there. There are
so-called works there. The lead seams run parallel to the general strike
of the hills. It is found both in the form of an oxide and associated with
copper. It is reduced to a metallic state by pulverization, washing, and
hBatins' in a blast furnace, all of which operations are performed in the most
primitive manner. The refuse copper ore is thrown away, as the miners
are not acquainted with the manner of reducing it to a metallic state, llieie
are about 40 miners here. The yearly output is about 4,500 mannas, ol
which £th is levied as a tax by the Fai^s Government.— (Louetf.)
BASHT AB— Lat. Long, Elev.
DASHT AB DAN (?)—
A village in Ears, 132 miles from Bandar’ Abbas, on the camel-road
to Yazd. Supplies obtainable here.— {MacGregor.)
DASHTABAD— Elev. 5,600'.
A small village in the province of Ears, the last on the Khafrak plain, on
the road from Shiraz northwards to Isfahan, distant 54 miles from Shiraz.
Population ^.—{Arbuthnot, 1905.) , , / in
Here the post-road crosses the Pulvar river by a lord Ip deep \
summer) with a gravelly bottom. The approaches on either side are a ,
and the ford is dangerous when the river is in flood.— (Howe, lohb.)