Bunpoor (town of Mekrán), 179
Burech, El, canal (from the Upper Tigris),
26
Burghúl (boiled wheat) 372, 672
Burka, town of Batna (in ’Oman), 644
Burraghan, island (in the Bed Sea), 570
Burugird, village (on the Dizful river), 196
Burujud, section of Kurds (in the vale of
Mushed), 251
Busfe, tribe (of Media Magna), 218
Busaf (in Khiízistán), 192
Buseng, district, and taxes of, 258
Busheab, island (in the Persian Gulf), 230
Bushire or Abú-Shehr, 209
Bushrew gah, town (in Khorásán), 223
Busrah or Eski Sham, now Betser or Bozra
(in the Kaouran), 509
Busser, village (in El Loehf), 506
Bustán el Metwokkil (palace at San’á), 622
- el Sultán (palace at San’a), 622
Buttauf, El, plain (in Galilee), 462
Buydk Munbedj or Kara Bambuche, a zeugma
(on the Upper Euphrates)-, 420
Kara Chai river (falling into the
Lower Orontes), 428
Buyiikdereh, bay (in the Bosphorus), 326
Cabira, city, now Sívás, 306
Cabolitae, people (of Paropamisus), 172
Cadah, a large wooden bowl used when
milking camels on the march, 685
Cadmus, mount, now Bábá Tágh (in Kúta-
hiyah páshálik), 335, 339
Caduchii, people of Media Magna, 218 j|J
Cadyna, plain and ruins (in Mopla páshálik),
340, 341
Cadytis, or the Holy City (Jerusalem),
499
Caesarea, lake (in Bithynia), 322
Calachene, province (of Assyria), 120
Calah, ruins (in Assyria) probably Hoi wan,
22. 119
Calainace,an ancient town (of Mekran), 185
Calbis, river (in Moola páshálik), 340
Calenter, or principal magistrate (in Persian
towns), 233
Calycadnus, valley (in Ich-ili district), 355
Cambala, gold mines (in Armenia) 278
Camels, 82, 536
- of Arabia, of two kinds, 582
, food of, during a journey, 581
_ —, called the Ship of the Desert, 582
——, Bocht or Bactrian, 582
. ------, Syriau and others* 582
of Nedjd, or Om-el-Bel (mother of
camels), 582
, have 80 names, 582
, average burden of, 582
of Mahrah, 584
fed on dried fish, 584
■ Turkomán, or mule breed, 584
, used for drawing water in Nedjd
Omán, &c., 585 .
, used to plough in Afghánistán, 585
Canaan, land of, once Chna, afterwards
called Philistia and then Palestine, 589
had five provinces, 539
Canaan, afterwards land of Israel or the
Holy Land, 539
, or the Holy Land, limits of, 540
Canal proposed across Mesopotamia, 33
Capernaum, now ’A'in-el-Tin (near lake Tiberias),
477
Capitolias, ancient city (in th'e Decapolis), 513
Capk-e-Derri (royal partridge), 82
Cappadocia, extent, mines, &c. of, 272
Cappadocians, Cilicians, &c., 72
, climate of, 360, 361
Cappadox, river, now probably the Kalichi
su (Sword river), tributary of the Halys, 5
Caprius, river (of Assyria), 120
Caprus or Lesser Zab, 25
Carambis, now Kerempeh, in Kastamuni,330
Caravan routes, 629
, into Yemen, 618
, to San’a and Mekkah, 620
, from Makalla, 637
Caravans, commercial, origin of, 685
* heavy, 686
, horse, 686
, ship, to Ophir, &c., 686
-, ordinary, formation of, 686
, the Aggiel Arabs usually employed as
carriers, 686
, of pilgrims, 688
—, ditto, assembling of, 688
r-, ditto, supplies for, 596
, ditto, meeting and members of, 688
Carbanum, Ancient, or Adiyaman, now Hisn
Mansur (at the eastern side of Mar’ash
pashalik), 3§0
Carchemish Chalne or Kalneh (on the Mesopotamian
Khabtir), 118
Cardar-abkd fortress (in Erivan district), 147
Carduchi or Kurd territory (Kurdistan),
&c., 120
Caria, province of Asia Minor, 309
, climate of, 359
Carissa, ancient town (of Lydia), 311
Carmania Felix or ’Irak Ajemi, 227
, Wild, or the Desert, 227
— —, features of, 227
Carmel, Mount, or Mar Elias, description of,
482
, grotto on, 482
, range, course of, 487
Carrhse or Haran (properly Charan), 114,
115 Casius, mount (Casiotis), 386, 387
, temple on, consecrated to Cronus or
Ham, 386
, scenery of, 388
Casluchim, or first Colchians, 150
Caspian Sea, 65, 77, 132 ^ ^.
, borders of the, description of, 216
gates, the supposed, 213
Castello Rosso, or Meis (in Moola pashalik),
341
Casterman ridge (part of the Anti-Taurus),
292
Cat-fish, mode of taking them near the lake
of Antioch, 589, 590
Catanii, or Batanaei, people (of Arabia De-
serta), 656
Cataonia, part of the ancient (now in Mar’ash
p&shalik), 352
Catapultae (in Aleppo castle), 434
Catarractes, now the Duden or Attalia su,
338
Caucasus, height of, 130
, geology, and description of, 131
, crests of, 136
, mines of, 278
Caucasian gates, 158
Caunus, ancient city (of Casia), 340
, ruins, 341
-, marshes, 358
Caystrus, ancient town, now Tireh (in Aidin
district), 311
— or Cayster, river (now the Kuchuk
Mendereh), 358
Cedars of Lebanon, 387, 454
Celsenge, mount (in Hamid district), 296
Celenderis, now Chelendreh (in I'ch-ili district),
355
Cement of the Arabs, 667
Caesarea Palestina, now Kaisariyah, once
Gath (on the coast), 481
Cestrus river, now the Ak-su (in Tekeh
district), 338
Chaab (district of Khuzistan), tribute of,
202
—— population of, 251
Chabes, ancient town (of Kirman), 231
Chabis, ancient town (of Kirman), 231
Chaboras, mountain (of Media), 120
Chahkr-su (the rotunda in Kandahar) 167
Chaidu, river (in the BulutTagh), 161
Chalanne, Chalne, or Kalneh, ruined city
(on the Mesopotamian Khabtir), 52, 117,
118 Chalcedon, Ancient, now Kadi Keui (near
the Bosphorus,), 324
Chalcites, Roman district (in the north of
Syria), 540
Chaldea in Babylonia, 93
, restriction of the name, 93
, of Ptolemy, 94
— —, towns of, 94
Chaldean lake, 58
—-—■ language, 83
---- , a cognate of the Aramaic, 84
•, or Iranian creed, 84
—i—, doctrine restored by Zoroaster, 85
——, tenets, 85
Chaldeans, astrology derived from the, 89
, the first, 92
, earlier and later distinguished, 92
, Sabean followers of Cush, 92
, from Shern, 92
, Ur of the, 93
-——, Chalybes and Kaldaui mixed, 93
, Tyari, Hakkari and Berrawi tribes of,
120
, tribes of Tyari, &c., occupy the fourth
district of Kurdistan, 120
and Nestorians, number of, 128
Chalonitis, province (of Assyria), 120
Chalu, or Sidd Nimrud(the Median wall), 30
Chains, river (now the Kowe’ik), 412
Chalva and Chalvata (in Colchis', 276
Chalybean mountains, or Paryadres (part of
the northern Anti-Taurus), 286
Chalybes, workers in iron, 276
Chalybon or Chalcis, probably the Aram
Zobah of Scripture, and later Beroea, 436
Chalybonitis, Roman district (in the north
.of Syria), 540
Chamkhor (magal of Elizabethpol), 150
Chámlí Burnú, Pine Point (in the Dardanelles),
319
Chamlú-Bel, group (near Tókát valley),
289
Chámurlí sú (Mud Water), tributary of the
Mará or Frát, 44
Chángrí, river (in Angora district), 328
, district (ancient Kánkarí), 331
Chapdar, and ruins of Azáni (in Kermiyán
eyalet), 334
Characmoba (Kir Moab), now Kerak, 520
Charadrus, Kharadran (in I’ch ili), 355
Chár Buhúr sú (tributary of the Murád),
43
Charnák Kal’eh sí, town and Asiatic castle
of the Dardanelles, 318
climate of, 360
Chár-Shámbáh-sú, valley (in Sívás páshálik),
286
, river, or Lycus, 294, 295
, river, or Yechíl Irmák, 295
, town, 307
Chasdim or Alybes and Kaldání (of Central
Armenia), 92
Chatal or Chatelí Chai, affluent of the Kará
sú or Yaghrah (in Aleppo páshálik), 396,
424
Chavilah and Havilah (in Colchis), 275
Cheena chai, Marsyas (tributary of the Mai-
ander), 297, 340
Chehel el Sittoon, palace (at Ispahán), 214
Chelebi or Zelebi, city (on the Upper Euphrates),
49
Chelek, valley ( of the Upper Tigris), 19
Chelindreh, port (of Ich ili district) 458
Chemistry known to the ancient Arabs,
692
Cherkesh or Namámlí (affluent of the Fili-
yás river), 321
Chesni Kopri, or Chásnígir (on the Halys), 5
Chibúk, Turkish pipe, 377
Chibúk sú (tributary of the Angorá sú), 296
Chiláni, a’yanlik (of Kastamúni), 330
Child’er, or Turkish Georgia, 147
:~ H> extent of, 147
, soil of, 147
rivers of, 147
, mountains of,147
, mineral springs of, 148 t
, animal and vegetable productions, 148
■——, sanjáks of, 148
•——, imports and exports of, 148
, inhabitants of, 148
■——, religion of, 148
, capital of, 148
Chinárán, section of Kurds (in the vale of
Mushed), 251
Chinari G<51, lake (on the eastern arm of the
Jaihán riv e r\ 300