1 182 SHA.
2 E.1.C. Ms. Doe. SHAEEWAN, in Afghanistan, a village and usual halting-
3 place on the route from Kandahar to Herat, and two hundred
4 and forty miles north-west of the former place. It is situate on
5 the Furrah Rood, or river of Furrah, in a remarkably fertile
6 country, having considerable population and cultivation. Lat.
7 82° 37’, long. 62°21’.
8 ELC. Ma. Doc. SHAGURIH, in Sinde, a village situate on the Great Desert,
9 about a mile and a half from the eastern frontier, and forty-
10 two miles west of the town of Jessulmair. Lat. 26° 56’, long.
11 70° 22’, :
12 Veves Bia SHAH AHUN, in Kashmir, a village situate fourteen miles
13 ’ east of Sirinagur. Lat, 34° 2’, long. 74° 58’.
14 Ms. Survey Map. SHAH ALUM, in Sinde, a village about three miles west of
15 the Poorana offset of the Indus, in lat. 24° 44’, long. 69° 1’.
16 ee Keel, SHAHBAD, in Kashmir, a town formerly a favourite resi-
17 * 3 rer. .
18 Pun}. Bokh. i, dence of the Mogul emperors, but now ruinous and neglected.
19 249; F.Von Hugel,
20 haschmir, 1,951, 2¢ 18 situate in a long, narrow valley, bounded on the south-west
21 by the Panjal of Banihal, and on the north-east by a ridge of
22 green hills several miles in length, dividing it from the valley of
23 Bureng or Breng. ‘The valley in some places has a width
24 not exceeding a thousand yards. It is watered by a stream
25 flowing from the celebrated spring of Vernag, and which lower
26 down, where increased by several small feeders, is called the
27 river Sandaren. Accounts received by Vigne represented the
28 valley to be very rich in mines of iron and copper, which
29 were worked in the time when the Afghans held it, but are
30 now neglected, in consequence of the ignorant rapacity of the
31 Sikhs, who would compel the natives to labour without remune-
32 ration; to avoid which hardship, those oppressed people conceal
33 both their knowledge of the situation of the veins and of the
34 mode of working.
35 The neighbourhood of Shahbad is celebrated for its fruits,
36 especially apples, and for its wheat, considered the finest in
37 Kashmir. The town, when visited by Moorcroft, had a bazaar
38 and a few shops, at which provisions, coarse cloth, and very fine
39 honey, were sold. It was formerly the residence of the most
40 powerful of the seven hereditary Maleks, or wardens appointed by
41 the emperor Akbar to watch over the passes of Kashmir. The
42 Malek of Shahbad had charge of the pass of Banihal, and enjoyed
43 a considerable income from lands held in jaghire, which have