1 2De La Hoste, in
2 Jour, As. Soc.
3 Beng. 1840, p.
4 913,
5 Ma, Survey Map.
6 1 Elph. Acc. of
7 Caubul, 492.
8 2 p’Herbelot, iv.
9 3 Jour. As. Soc.
10 Beng. 1840, p. 710,
11 Conoily (E.),
12 Phys. Geog. of
13 Seistan,
14 Geog. of Persia,
15 189.
16 In App. to Pott,
17 Belooch. 407.
18 174 SEI.
19 the neighbouring countries, and, according to the popular belief,
20 even the fish pay the same homage to the saint’s memory. But
21 neither’ the possession of so sacred a deposit, nor the example of
22 so much devotion, has any beneficial effect on the morals of the
23 population, who are remarkable for idleness and profligacy.
24 North-west of the town, and separated from it by a deep channel,
25 is an eminence about eighty feet high, having its sides cased with
26 a brick wall. The summit is oval, and is twelve hundred feet
27 long and seven hundred and fifty wide.? It is covered with ruins
28 and fragments of pottery; the remains of towers are visible along
29 the circuit of the wall, and two fine arched gateways are in tole-
30 rable preservation. The population of Sehwan is estimated by
31 Burnes * at about 2,000. Lat. 26° 21’, long. 67° 55’.
32 SEISAN, in Sinde, a village situate on the west side of Lake
33 Manchur. Lat. 26° 28’, long. 67° 40’.
34 SEISTAN,! on the western frontier of Afghanistan, a district
35 of late years sometimes under Persian, at others under Afghan
36 sway, according as the power of either nation acquired the
37 ascendancy. It was formerly called also Segestan, and some-
38 times Nimroz,?t or “ the country of mid-day or the south.” Its
39 boundaries are set out by D’Herbelot to have been at the
40 remote period of which he treats—on the west, Khorasan; east,
41 Mekran; south, desert of Fars; north, India. In its pre-
42 sent extent,? Seistan measures about a hundred miles in length
43 from north to south, sixty miles in breadth from east to west, has
44 a nearly oval outline, and an area of about five thousand square
45 miles.{ It lies between lat. 30° 30’—32°, long. '61°—62° 30’,
46 and is bounded on the north by Khorasan; on the east by
47 Afghanistan; on the south by the great desert dividing the
48 last-mentioned country from Beloochistan; on the west by Persia.
49 Conolly, to whom is due the credit of any accurate information
50 * Personal Narrative, 41. Elsewhere (Bokhara, iii. 55, 227) ‘at 10,000.
51 t Nimrozic jy J mid-day, or half a day. Kinneir relates an idle tra-
52 dition that this country was called Nimrose, because being ‘ once entirely
53 under water, but having been drained in the short space of half a day, by the
54 genii, it hence received the name of Nimrose.’’
55 t Christie states the area at only five hundred square miles, or a tenth of
56 the amount set forth]in the text. Conolly, however, was enabled to afford
57 the subject a much more careful notice, and the outline laid down in his map
58 gives the larger amount.