1 180 SEN—SEW.
2 part of the fourteenth century, being, after a brave resistance,
3 2Price, Mahome- conquered in 1383, by Tamerlane,? who exterminated the popu-
4 dan Hist, iii. 46 ; : y .
5 Malcolm, Hist. or J@tion, and reduced the town to heaps of ruins.
6 Persia, 1, 459. SENEE, in Afghanistan, a village situate about twelve miles
7 west of the Indus, in lat. 33° 30’, long. 71° 54’.
8 ELC. Bs, Doe. ; SERAI-I-SHAH BEG, in Western Afghanistan, a halting-
9 Teton” place on the route from Herat to Kandahar, and thirty miles south
10 of the former place. It is situate on the river Adruscund, near its
11 source, and nearly opposite to the point where it receives the Road-
12 i-Guz. The contiguous country affords forage, but no other sup-
13 plies. The elevation above the sea is 6,500 feet. Lat. 33° 58’,
14 long. 62° 10’.
15 E.1.C. Ms, Doc. SERI GOBINDPOOR, in the Punjab, a halting-place and
16 caravanserai situate on the right bank of the Beas river, forty
17 miles east of Amritsir. Lat. 31° 43’, long. 75° 24’.
18 irate Map of SERMIH, in Bultistan, a village situate on the left bank of
19 the river Indus, here called Sinh-kha-bab, in lat. 35° 6’, long.
20 75° 48’,
21 iy ae, SESSARAH, in Bhawlpoor, a village on the route from the
22 Mop. town of Bhawlpoor to Bekanir, and seventy miles south-east of the
23 former. It is situate in the great eastern desert of Bhawlpoor,
24 and, though the ordinary halting-place, is devoid of water. Lat.
25 28° 45’, long. 72° 83’.
26 SEWESTAN, in Afghanistan, an extensive tract, but little
27 known, our scanty information concerning it being confined, in a
28 ' Ace. of Caubul, great degree, to what the diligence and sagacity of Elphinstone’
29 i enabled him to glean from native report. Its limits on the north
30 appear to be undefined; on the east it is bounded by the Suliman
31 mountains; on the south by the mountains inclosing Kahun, and
32 by Cutch Gundava; ou the west by the Toba and Hala ranges.
33 With reference to the most trustworthy information that exists,
34 it may be stated to be between lat. 29° 30’—30° 30’, long.
35 69° 30’. According to Elphinstone’s description, ‘it is a flat
36 dry plain of hardened clay; its natural defects being in some
37 places corrected by streams from the hills, and round the town of
38 Sewee at least it is highly cultivated.” It is inhabited principally
39 by the Punnee division of the great Cauker or Khaka tribe. The
40 mountains about Kahun are, however, held by Belooches, in
41 general engaged im hostilities with their Afghan neighbouts.
42 Sewestan is crossed throughout its whole extent, from east to