IIIFカラー高解像度
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XLVIII
PERSIAN DEPRESSIONS 179
desert intervening between the mountains of Bashakird and the Bampûr and Rûdbår rivers. These meet at a place called, according to Keith Abbott, Jaz-morian, but whether their flood-waters escape thence to the sea or are lost in the sand is uncertain. Major Lovett heard the former ; my informants stated the latter." 1 St. John also speaks of sandhills near Bampur, and says that the dunes are piled up by the north-westerly winds. But most interesting is his account of the sandy desert on the southern edge of J as-morian, which is in complete harmony with the law of sand distribution to which I have called attention.
In connection with the distribution of kevir deserts in Persia, St. John treats of their relation to sand. He says that the most characteristic feature in the Persian lowlands is the salt swamps, which are called in the northern part of the country kevir, and in the south kafeh. Where the drainage is insufficient to form lakes, like Urmia and N iris, a miry clay is deposited in the lowest depressions, which is covered with salt water in winter and in summer with a thick salt crust. The largest is the great salt desert,
,~ Desht-i-kevir, which had then been seen only by one
I European, Dr. Buhse. " The ordinary kavIrs are innumer-
able. That south of Khaf is one of the largest." " The banks of the ` Gavkhänah ' marsh, formed by the Zaindarûd, are also ` kavir,' and a kavir, perhaps the same, was crossed by Trézel, between Abådah and Yazd. The desert of Karmån, called by Khanikoff the desert of Lilt or Lot, that of Kharän which bounds Persian territory on the south-
', east, and the smaller waste of Bampûr, are drier, and
11 therefore more sandy than the northern desert. Perhaps, also, the soil is less favourable to the formation of kavir." 2
Vaughan's description of the lake Gav-khaneh has been
II quoted above. Comparing this description with St. John's account of the Kheirabad swamp lying east of the Niris lake, we find that the difference between a salt lake and a salt swamp in Persia may be very slight. The latter is a kafeh, or salt desert, nine miles broad, of which the last four
Eastern Persia. An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission, 1870-71-72, vol. i. p. 79.
2 Eastern Persia, vol. i. p. 15.
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