1 REE—REG. 153
2 The town is surrounded by a wall with bastions, and has an old
3 furt, on which a few miserable cannon are mounted. Lat. 33°
4 40’, long. 78°. °
5 REEPREE, in the Punjab, a village situate on the right bank E.1.0, Ms. Doc.
6 of the Trimab, about twenty miles from its confluence with the
7 Ghara. Lat. 29° 33’, long. 71° 6’.
8 REGAN, in Beloochistan, a village on the route from Nooshky
9 to Bunpoor, and a hundred and eighty miles south-west of the
10 former place. It is situate on ‘the Badoor river, or torrent, the
11 current of which intermits during great part of the year, and water
12 can then only be obtained by digging in the bed. When visited
13 by Pottinger, it was deserted, the inhabitants having emigrated in Belooeh. 135,
14 consequence of famine, Lat. 28° 20’, long. 62° 39’:
15 REG ROWAN,! * (« Flowing Sand,”) in the Kohistan of rue rohaia
16 Kabool, is a bed of loose sand on the slope of ‘a hill. When put purmes, on tho
17 in motion by the wind or by the trampling of feet, undulations Ree Romani...
18 are caused, which produce a sound, described by Wood to be like Welsted, on the
19 that of a distant drum, mellowed by softer music. Close to it ponds iia
20 is a deep and unexplored cave, viewed with much awe by the aia Week
21 Mahometans, who believe that their expected Imam Medi, the oxus, 181; Mas-
22 son, Bal. Afg. Panj.
23 supposed precursor of the end of the world, has his retreat there 4); 167; Baber,
24 until the appointed time of his appearance. ae ican
25 The bed of sand is a hundred yards wide, and it stretches up Burnes’ Pers. Narr.
26 the face of the rock for two hundred and fifty yards with an ac- a er a
27 clivity of'about 45°, The appearance of the sand is very curious,
28 _ as if the hill on the side of which it lies had been cut in two, and
29 that it had gushed out ; but probably it has been accumulated by
30 an eddy of the wind, which is here very powerful and constant.
31 The singular effects manifested at Reg Rowan did not escape
32 the observant Baber, who thus alludes to them :—‘' They say that
33 in the summer season the sound of drums and nagarets (Tartar
34 drums) issue from this sand.”+ It is difficult to offer a satisfac-
35 * From eh, ** gand,”’ and why “ flowing.’’
36 tT Lieut. Newbold! describes a similar phenomenon at Gebel Nakusa, on ! Jour. Roy. As.
37 the eastern shore of the Red Sea, but he is unquestionably mistaken in 5° Nay, 182 p.
38 his belief that such nowhere else occurs. Welsted,? who calls this place 2 Jour, As. Soc.
39 Djibbel Narkono, gives the following full and interesting account of his visit Beng. 1837, p. 403.
40 to it:—** The Djibbel Narkono, or sounding mountain, concerning which
41 there has been so much doubt and discussion in Europe. I visited it on my
42 way here—it is situated on the sea-shore, about cight miles from Tor. A
43 solid slope of the finest drift sand extends on the sea face from the base to