1 Leech, App.
2 59; Masson,
3 Bal. Afg. Panj.
4 i. 36; Jour. As.
5 Soe. Beng. 1839,
6 p. 763, Irwin,
7 Mem. on Afg.
8 E.I.C. Ms. Doe. ;
9 Leech, on Sind.
10 Army, 87.
11 170 SAN—SAR.
12 Suliman mountains, in lat. 29° 50’, long. 70° 10’. It commences
13 at the village of Sangad, on the route from Dera Ghazee Khan to
14 Shikarpoor, and proceeds, in a north-westerly direction, toRaknee,
15 on the Sakhee Surwar Pass, and thence north to the Mohavee
16 pass. It is rather a good route, and practicable for wheel-carriages.
17 SANG GHAR, in Afghanistan, in the Derajat, on the west
18 of the Indus, and between it and the Suliman mountains, is 2
19 dependency of Dera Ghazee Khan, and has a mud fort of con-
20 siderable extent, but of little strength. The Sikhs have lately
21 expelled its former chief, a Belooche, and seized the territory,
22 which is fertile and productive. Lat. 30° 40’, long. 70° 45’.
23 SANGRAR, in Sinde, a town twelve miles south-east of
24 Roree, on the route to Jessulmair. It has some trade with
25 Marwar. Population about 1,000. Lat. 27° 36’, long. 69° 4’.
26 SARAWAN, in Beloochistan, a province bounded on the
27 north and west by Afghanistan, on the east by Afghanistan and
28 Cutch Gundava, and on the south by Jhalawan, Kelat, and Mekran.
29 It lies between lat. 27° 53’ and 30° 20’, and long. 64° and 67° 40’,
30 is about two hundred and fifty miles in length from north-east to
31 south-west, eighty miles in its greatest breadth, and has a
32 surface of about fifteen thousand square miles. It is in general a
33 very mountainous, rugged, and elevated tract, rising on its
34 ' Havelock, i. 249. northern frontier into the lofty mountain Tukatoo,! supposed to
35 have an elevation of between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and on the
36 east into the range which overhangs the Bolan Pass. On the
37 west is the lofty range called the Sarawanee mountains. There
38 2 Havelock, 1.251; are, however, some level and productive tracts2 The valley of
39 Masson, Katat,
40 311; Pott. 262;
41 Hough, 57.
42 Shawl, in the north, is fertile, well watered, well cultivated, and
43 has a fine climate, though rather sharp in winter, the snow some-
44 times lying for two months together. It produces in abundance
45 grain, pulse, madder, tobacco, and excellent fruits. At some distance
46 south of this lies the valley or plain of Mustung, resembling that
47 of Shawl in climate, soil, and productions, but superior to it in
48 all these respects. Between them is the Dasht-i-Bedaulut, a plain
49 of about twenty miles in diameter, barren and uninhabited,
50 except in spring, when it is adequately supplied with water, and
51 supports numerous flocks and herds. For the rest of the year
52 water is very scarce, and then the plain becomes a cheerless waste,
53 presenting only a scanty clothing of wild thyme, and similar plants,
54 which thrive in arid and elevated tracts. Sarawan is in general re-