Living Age Volume 182 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...with desert tracts. If the rains have been plentiful, the plains to the east-south-east of Bandar Mashur are covered with grass above a horse's knees. If they have been deficient, the grass will be short and fit for sheep, but not for cattle. I have before remarked about the waste of forage and want of economy which occur from the nomads not caring to cut and stack hay. Besides the Kartin, the other rivers above mentioned are, first, the Zoreh, the Tab, and the Hintliyan, which is formed by the united waters of the Ab-i-Shtir and the Abi-Shirin (also called the Khairabad River and the Shams-al-Arab), which have their sources in the mountains of the Mamasani. Their junction takes place in the vicinit of Chham (Zeittin), where I had some diffiycultyin fording it, as before related. After traversing the outer low range of sandstone hills (originating in the Kabfr-Ktih, and stretching from the Karkhah at Kal'a Bandar and the Kartin at Ahwaz in a southeast direction towards Zcittin), it falls into the Gulf a few miles from Hindiyan, where it is both unfordable and undrinkable. Serond, the Rtihilla or Rtidhillah, otherwise the Shat-ban-i-Lemini, which, rising in the vicinity of Kal'a Saffd, traverses the Shaptir plain and valley. Third, thejriver Iarrahi or Dorak, known to its junction with the Ab-i-Ramuz as the Kurdistan River, rising in the Ktihgelilti hills at Sad'at; thence it issues through the narrow Tang-i-Tekab, which I had such good cause to remember, and running along the foot of the low hills, receives an additional volume to its waters from the numerous tributary streams flowing from them--viz., the Ab-i-Ramuz, Ab-i-Ali, Ab-i-Zard, etc. On its banks are numerous ruins, attesting former civilization and population....