1 SIR. 237
2 from Dera’ Ghazee Khan to Kandahar, and one hundred and fifty
3 miles west of the former place. It has a population of about
4 1,500, living in wretched huts, and is only important for its
5 . supply of water from a spring. Lat. 30° 19’, long. 68° 30’.
6 SIR MOUTH, an estuary of the Indus (which see). Lat.
7 23° 38’, long. 68° 12’.
8 SIRA, in the Punjab, a village situate on the route from La- £.1.c. Ms. Doe.
9 hore to Mooltan, along the left bank of the Ravee. Lat.31° 7,
10 long. 73° 28’.
11 SIRA DURGA, in Afghanistan, a’ village on the road from 2-1. Ms. Doc. —
12 Babur-ka-killa to Dera Ismael Khan. Lat. 31° 48’ long. 68° 48’,
13 SIRAHUH, in the Punjab, a village situate-on a small feeder E.1.c. Ms. Doc.
14 of the Hirroo river, and thirty miles south-east of Attock. Lat.
15 83° 43’, long. 72° 45’.
16 SIR CHUSMAH, properly SIR CHUSHMAH, “ Fountain- Baths xe aes
17 head,”* in Afghanistan, the source, according to some, of the notes, 138;
18 Kabool river, throughe stream rising ten miles farther west,! and }¥2%h Oxus, 107.
19 3 Moorer. Punj.
20 higher on the mountain receives the water from this spring. Here eo il. an
21 are two natural ponds replenished from springs, ‘‘ so full of trout ;, ae ae Dis-
22 as to baffle description or credibility.”?_ These fish are treated as (sjer in AiR: £17-
23 sacred by the superstitious Afghans.? There isa small town here, Beng. 1842, p. 68,
24 defended by a fort. Elevation above the sea, 8,836 feet.4+ Lat. sre” ou in Aff.
25 34° 20’, long. 68° 15’.
26 SIRDARCOTE, or WALOUR, a village near the south-
27 eastern frontier of Bhawlpoor, and situate on the route from the
28 town of Bhawlpoor to Bbutnea. Lat. 29° 16’, long. 78° 16’.
29 SIRDAR GHUR.—See Gorrarao. .
30 SIREE, a village in Afghanistan, on the road from Tull to E.1.C. Ms. Doc.
31 Dera Ghazee Khan. Lat. 30° 3’, long. 70° 12’.
32 SIRGAE, in the Punjab, a village situate on the right E.I.C. Ms. Doc.
33 bank of the Ravee, about eight miles from its confluence with
34 ‘the Chenaub. Lat. 30° 35’, long. 71° 53’.
35 SIR.I-AB, in Beloochistan, a copious spring in the Dusht-i- E.1.c. Mg. Doc. ;
36 Bedowlut, or table-land north-west of the Bolan Pass, is im- ete a Bap
37 portant as lying on the great military and commercial route from Jour. As. Soe.
38 Sinde and Lower India to Afghanistan. Its name, the head of parka eda
39 the river, is derived from its being the source of the Shah de Tell Ther Obs. in Afg.
40 * From ‘*head,”’ and gsi.» “fountain.”
41 °
42 + In Wood’s MS, Survey, 8,400.