1 246 SOF—SON.
2 Vigne, Kashmir, SOFAHUN, in Kashmir, a small town at the south-eastern
3 1, S38: extremity of the valley. Here are the only iron-mines in Kash-
4 mir. The works here have greatly fallen away, and employ only
5 two hundred men, or about half their former number; the dimi-
6 nution resulting from the exactions and short-sighted oppres-
7 sion of the Sikhs. The ironis considered inferior to that obtained
8 from Bajour and Chinese Tartary. Sofahun is in lat, 33° 32’,
9 long. 75° 12’,
10 E.1.C. Ms. Doc.; SOHRAB, in Beloochistan, on the route from Kelat to
11 mead a Khozdar, and forty miles south-west of the former town. Here
12 177. is a collection of villages, situate in a fertile and well-watered
13 valley, displaying in summer luxuriant verdure, but in winter
14 dreary from cold, resulting from the elevation, which is between
15 five and six thousand feet. Lat. 28° 33’, long. 66° 9’.
16 SOLEIMAN MOUNTAINS.—See Suxuran.
17 ELC. Ms. Doe. SOLTANPOOR.—A village in Bhawlpoor, situate on the route ’
18 from Bhawlpoor to Subzulcote, about fifty-five miles north-east
19 of the latter town. Lat. 28° 30’, long. 70° 29’.
20 Vigne, 1.270. SONAWARUN, in the Punjab, a lofty peak among the
21 mountains bounding Kashmir’ on the north-east. Lat. 34° 6’,
22 long. 75° 26’.
23 Walker's Map of SONDANWARAN.—A village situate on a small river to the
24 NW. Frontier. cast of Kashmir. Lat. 34° 8’, long. 75° 23’,
25 E.LC. Ms, Doe. SONEAUT.—A village in Southern Sinde, ten miles from the
26 border of the Great Western River. Lat. 24° 24’, long. 70° 23’.
27 sere int SONMEANEE,! properly SOUMEANEE,* in Beloochistan, a
28 “2 small town on the shore of the Arabian Sea. It is situate at the
29 northern extremity of an inlet, called the Bay of Sonmeanee, and
30 7Helooch.9, described, probably in too favourable terms, by Pottinger,’ as
31 ‘“‘a very noble sheet of water, said to be free from rocks or
32 shoals, and is capable of affording anchorage to the largest fieet.”
33 This bay is formed by the projection of Cape Monze on the cast.
34 3 Jour. As. Soc. According to the competent authority of Carless,3 « the harbour,
35 Beng. 1839, p. 201 : . : a
36 Mem.on Province Which has been formed by the Poorally river, is a large irregular
37 of Lus. inlet, spreading out, like that of Kurrachee, in extensive swamps,
38 and choked with shoals. ‘The channel leading into it is extremely
39 narrow, and has a depth of sixteen or seventeen feet at high
40 toa as water in the shallowest part, but it shifts its position every year,
41 Bong. 1840, p.138, = * According to Hart, from su, “neat,’? and meanee, signifying, in
42 Ace. of a Jour, : Se eg sre : fe
43 from Kurrachec to Sindhi, “a fishing station.
44 Hingtaj-