"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [ظ‎‎٥‎٣] (٧٢٢/١١١)

the existence of the Turquoise mines a very po 6 r district Should
be anv excess or F ^ OD °uia
■^ar
excess ot ^ wMch"^ ^V^TZ. «
ihe'TwZ'tf Th ? 8 7 ' t ’ il 7 '?, S int0 the Ksl-i-Mansurab, whicl. forms
The n luhfi ?, of t l'' , ^ a " d • flo 'T S ,,ast ^haDabad towards Jowefn.
(oLh f^ll sod Q^h 1 ' - r'f ? bout 3 ’ 00 °i the two villages Madcn
seven , / e // I Qalah -'T>ai>i had, m 1882, 1,241 inhabitants, and the
seven belonging to Maden had 280 inhabitants. Mazrah, are
generally ended AelaUh. The Sayads of the Maden villages call the ”
selves Hnse.nAsgher. and trace their descent from Hnsein Asgher, a son
A H HSo'rA n mfiv r "'? 1 a b ; din -v In a ^"^-'K'-l tree compiled
to',.,,' t V A L ' 117 , 8 ) J. n L ot,ced that the name of the village Maden was
dorb o fhe ^r’- i md /' sha " 1 It seems that this name was not used
, , , S rarie l ,; ("'' ■n d-curnenls written in the 17th and 18 th cen-
bv Sh hVl ^ Maden.i-h irnaeh. I noticed a document signed
Ahlt TI f ln a SI H m.r a /,e; H 1033 ano ther signed by Shah
| 5 , 'l°., A H ' 1032 ( 16 H), and several others. The grave of the
Maden d r'l Iiuse,n ,'‘' 1 - As S , '« 1 ' 'f shown near the village Garmab, west of
Maden. ( lose to Garmab hes the village Marzan, of which it is said t hat
A rnhab,tants have crooked noses. It is related that the Imamzadeh
nnaTo 6 S8 ’ e .l aS n 6 "’ a8 sittiD »> lost in thought and meditation,
on a s one near the village, wasboihered by the impertinent curiosity of
the v. lagers to such an extent that he grew angry and turned away their
faces by miraculously, at one stroke, twisting all their noses. I myself
did not notice any crooked noses at Marzan. Other villages of the Bar-i-
Maden district are Ausk (or Nushk), Pahnah (or Fahnah), Ardelan (or
wtll ! JaZa,ldar >, Ti,an ’ barzeuvin. Three miles east of
Mavian is the Sisar peak, and at its foot is a little lake. Once upon a
time thirty men went there with the intention of discovering and appropri
ating a treasure which was buried in the lake. They began work by
emptying the lake, hut the dragon-!,ke monster which guarded the
treasure came out. of the water and killed them. Their heads were later
on found there; hence the name of the peak Si-Sar = thirty heads
Very few notices on the Turquoise mines are found in the Persian
historical works. I he earliest notice I found was in the “ Tansuq-cameli "
lsth 0 e„ °u 1 L n n ? .fT' al0gy ’ hy Nas '"“l-‘1in Tusi, written i„ the
l ith century. A de ailed report on the Turquoise mines was written
by me in 1883, and published in No. It (18841 of the r„„,
Reports from Her Majesty’s Diplomatic and C,lit‘ 0 ^™ Nea
Qaraquchi on the eastern limits of the district are the celebrated salt
quarries aud some old lead mines are in the Eatan mountain.
(3) /'•%«>';—This district lies west of the last, and is also the most
westerly of Nishapur; it Las very little water and, though great in extent*
only eight villages and a few Mazr’ah with 1,200 inhabitants. Its limits
are the Kuh-i-Garmab to the north, the Aliek and Taghun mountains to
of C the Ht« S, n pr "™ pa r , a ^ e 13 Sultanabad, which belongs to the family
of the late Sultan Murad Mirza Hissam-es-Sultaneh, and has about 100
houses. Other viHages of this sub-district are Jamberjuq (general y
AriuD.'Buthtibaf 8 ^ 3 ' 1 ' Kbusbab ’ ^
(4) Taghun-kuh.^Hhis sub-district joins that of Arboqai on the east • its
Shuith rud mit Tf S b he 9 I ! ar -.^ adan dis j ri ^ i southwards it extends to'the
Shuieh-rud. It has 27 villages and lar^e Mazrahs, and many small
Jkazrahs, with 2,500 inhabitants. Most of the water of this district comes
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