1 SHO—SHU. 195
2 Furrah to Giriskh, ten miles west of the latter place. Lat. 31°
3 50’, long. 64° 11’.
4 SHORAEE KHOJAKE, in the Punjab, a village sifuate about z.1.c. ats. Doc.
5 twenty miles north of Lahore. Lat. 31°49’, long. 74012’.
6 SHORANDAN, in Afghanistan, a village on the route from Atkinson, Exp.
7 Kandahar to Ghuznee, and five miles east of the former place. 4%: '*
8 It is supplied with water by a small stream, but affords scarcely
9 any provision or forage, the surrounding country, though level,
10 being almost entirely devoid of vegetation. Lat. 31° 37’, long.
11 65° 31’.
12 SHORAWUCK.—A barren tract south of Kandahar, on the Eiph. Ace. of
13 borders of the Great Desert of Beloochistan. The waters of the ae eit Afe.
14 Lora, flewing from the valley of Pisheen, are lost in a swamp in hive oa we ‘
15 the south-western part. On the banks of this stream there is India, i. 198.
16 considerable fertility, and fine crops-of wheat, barley, and maize,
17 are produced ; but the rest of the country is a bare plain of hard
18 clay, quite flat and very arid. Itis inbabited by the Afghan tribe
19 of Baraich. Lat. 30° 30’, long. 65° 30’.
20 SHORKACH, in Afghanistan, a village on the eastern route E.LC. Me. Doe.
21 from Kabool to Shawl, and ninety miles south of the former town.
22 Lat. 33° 23’, long. 68° 42’.
23 SHORKOT,! in the Punjab, a small town situate on the route 1 E.1.C. Ms. Doe.
24 from Jung to Tolumba, and twenty-six miles north of the latter
25 town. Here are some ruins, which Burnes? states to be similar * Bokh. itl, 131.
26 to those of Sehwan, but more extensive. The most remarkable
27 object is a mound of earth, surrounded by a brick wall, and so high
28 as to be seen for a circuit of six or eight miles. Native tradition
29 represents it to have been the capital of a rajah of the name of
30 Shor, who was conquered by a king from the west, considered by
31 Burnes to have been Alexander the Great,, In the Ayeen Akbery,3 ti. 289,
32 mention is made of Syalkote and of Shoore, two towns in this part
33 of the Punjab, and Shorkot may, perhaps, be the ruins of one of
34 these. Lat. 30° 50’, long. 72° 19’.
35 SHORUN, in Beloochistan, a village of Cutch Gundava, z.1.c. Ms. Doo. ;
36 situate on the road from Gundava to Dadur, and twenty-two peer er ‘
37 miles north of the former town. Lat. 28° 46’, long. 67° 30’. 200.
38 SHUDAPOOR.—See Sxapaproor.
39 SHUFTUL, in Afghanistan, a halting-place on the route from E.1.C. Ms. Doc.;
40 Kandahar to Ghuznee, and one hundred and seventeen miles rik, eo
41 north-west of the former town. The road to the southward, in
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