Hierapolis, or Bambyce, or Magog (now
Munbedj), 420
Hieromiace or Jarmuk and Sheriat-el-Mand-
hiir (affluent of the Jordan), 401, 513
Hijaz, the, or Belad-el-Hebesch, 596
, limits and features of, 594
, coast of, or Djar, 596
, generally barren, 596
Hijra (in the mosque at Medina), 599
Hill&h, town, ruins of Babel, 57, 116
Him&laya mountains, 74
Himyaritic, kingdom (of Yemen), 656
Hindea, lake (near Babylon), 105
Hindi, or Ethiopians, 281
Hindu Kiish (or Indian Caucasus), 74
Hiobdon, plain of Daghestan, 132
Hirah, district, taxes, &c., 257
Hirran, mountain (in San’a district), 619
Hisar-Anlu, town and remains (in Boli district),
321
Hisn Ke'ifa (in Mesopotamia), 111
Mansur, town, or Adiyaman, once Carbanum
(in Mar’ash pashalik), 350
Hissarjik -village, and New Ilium, 317
Hit, town (on the Euphrates), 54, 110
s bitumen about, 75
Hittites (westward of the Jordan), 539
Hobah of Scripture, possibly Aram Zobah
(N. of Syria of Damascus), 540
Hodei'da town and harbour (of Tehameh),
described, 612
j country between Lohayah, 612
, government of) 612
Hodheyl, tribe and hamlets (near Taif), 608
Ho'iran, lake (in Hamid district), 337
Hoi, Holi or Hauli (affluent of the Khabur),
Ho5lw1 an, river (in Zohab distri• cts), 34
, ruins of, 119, 216
, district taxes of, 256, 257
Horayb, village (of El Kassym, district of
Nedjd), 629
Hormuz (Ormuz), isle of, 229
.___ , extent and surface of, 229
, port and position of, 229, 230
, once a Himyaritic kingdom, 231
Hormuzd, the good principle, 85
Horse of Arabia, 585
( five noble breeds of the, 585
, food of the, 585
j pedigree of, handed down from father
to son, 586
I pedigree traced from the mare, 586
[ prevailing colours of the, 586
Hosea, tomb of, or Neby Osha (near Szalt),
517
Houses in Asia Minor, described, 369
Houta,or garden of palms(in Jof-es-Syrhan),
627
Howaiyah, town of Jaffea (district of Arabia),
635 , OK
Howra, village of Senban (district ot Arabia),
615
Huleb, ’Bahr-el, lake, or waters of Merom
(Upper Jordan), 399 ; « -
Hummus, a kind of vetch grown in Syria
537
Humreck, island (in the Red Sea), 571
Hums or Horns (ancient Emessa), 522
— , valley of (on the Upper Orontes), 39 4
Hurkary, camel in Asia, the hajih of Arabia,
and the dromedary of Scripture, 583
Hussein, Jebel, island (near Bahreïn), 649
Tell (on the plain of Haouran), 511
Hussiah, plain in El Woschem (district of
Nedjd), 629
Huts and tents of the Arabs, 673
Huzarah country, or the two districts of Bâ-
miyân and Ghoraut (in Afghanistan), 164,
172
villages of, 164
, pastoral wealth of, 165
, Deh Zangee, capital of, 169
, cuneiform inscriptions of, 169
, tribe of, 176
Hyatti, village and remains (in El Lowa),
504
Hycsos, or Ethiopians who passed into
Africa, 281
Hyda or Hyde of the first Asia (probably
near Sardis), 311
Hydaspes river (flowing from the Bulût
Tâgh), 161
Hyllus or Hermus (flowing through the
Katakekaumene), 310
Hyrcania (now a province of Aster-àbâd),
225
Ibrah, town, in Jaïlân district (of ’Om’an),
642
Ich-üï, district (of Asia Minor), position,
&c., of, 352, 355
, temperature of, 358
Ichthyophagi, ancient people (of Gedrosia),
185
Ida, mount, or Kaz Tâgh (in Mysia), 288,
316
Id-deris and other sections of the Chaab
people, 251
Ihram, or pilgrim’s wrapper, 604
’Ikta’ah, or captured lands, 253
Ilahiyah, ’Ali, sect of, 88,143 -
Ilik Tâgh, a branch from the Olgassys (towards
Kastamuni), 6,287 I
Ilium, site of (atBunâr bâshi), 316, 317
New, ruins of, 317
Iliyats and their flocks, 78
, state of property and occupations, 248,
249
origin of, 248
— —, population of, 252
, revenue of, 252
I’lijeh-sû, tributary of the Kharzâ-châï, 18
Imâm of Maskat, 653
Ali, town (in Lower Chaldea), 94 J
Dur, Saint’s tomb (on the Tigris),
27, 30
Imams, the twelve (of the Shi’ahs), 86
I’maryeh, or Jebel A’aridh (mountains in
Nedjd), 627
Imiretia, Caucasian province, 148
, extent and position, 148
, inhabitants of, 149
, rivers of, 149
Imiretia, climate and produce, 149
, districts of, 149
, government of, 149
Inan, village (in Dhorrah, district of Omán), !
644
Indian, river, or Táb (in Khiízistán), 77
Ocean, or Bahr ’Omán (the swelling
sea), 640
, town, 201
Indus, river of Asia Minor, now the Tála-
mán-chai or Dalamon-chai, 161, 340
Injeh sil (scanty water), excavations and
town (N.W. of Mount Aijish), 291, 347
In-Oghi, or Sultán Oni (in Kermiyán
eyalet), 334
Intcha-chai (in Karábagh), 142
Ionia, district (of Asia Minor), 309
’Irák Ajemí, position and limits of, 211
, its features, valleys, and plains, 2 12
Arabi (or Lower Mesopotamia), 107
Arabia, climate of, 79
I ’rán, extent and limits of, 65
, mineral productions, &c., of, 74,75, 76
, surface of, 77, 78, 79
, plateau of, 65, 77
, geological character o£ 74
, kanáts of, and use, 77, 81
I minor rivers of, 77
p|ll§-> salt lakes of, 77
, scarcity of wood and fresh water in,
77, 79
——, barren appearance of, 79
, great desert- tract of, 79
, climate of four kinds, 79
, vegetable productions of, 80
——, animal ditto, wild and tame, 81, 82
, painted horses of, 81
——I people, language, &c., of, 83
I sacred language ofj 83
, religion of, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
, Aramaic probably at one time a common
language in, 84
, pagans in, 88
, Neií-rúz, first day of the year in, 89
, Jámásp,.the astrologer in, 89
■■■■. , astrologers in, called Minatzim, 89
, astrology of, derived from the Chaldeans,
89
—..... , influence of, in, 89
, three divisions of, 91
, guide-books of, in the second century
of the Hijrah, 252
—— , revenue of, in the time of Khosroes,
261
I’ránian, or Chaldean, creed, 84
I ’ránians, high altars and caves of the, 84
, ancient religion of, overcome by Mohammedanism,
85
, superstition of the, 89
Irkisohe, river (of Dághestan), 134
Irmia, or Berkia, son of Saul, the supposed
ancestor of the Afghans, 175
Isa, canal, or Sakláwíyah, connecting the
Euphrates and Tigris, S2, 33, 55
Isatichse, people (of Kirmán), 230
Isaura, sanjáklik of (Kdniyeh eyalet), 344
Isaurians, capital of the, 346
IsMrtah, town (of Hamid district), 337
Isconda, ruins (in Pamphylia), 339
Iscondar, town (of Kojah-ili), 321
Isferayin, section (of Kurds) 251
Is-haki, canal (from the Tigris below Tekrit)
26, 27
Ishekli (Eumenia), ancient site (in Hamid
district), 337
Ishik T ig h (in Angora district), 328
Iskanderiyah, khan of (in Mesopotamia), 56
Iskanderlin, distance to Balis, 48
, bay and marshes of, 409
———, proposed improvement of, 409, 447
Iskelib, town (in Angora district), description
o£ 331
— Kas&r (in the a’yanlik of Chunim),
303
Iskil, town (on Tuz Goli lake), 347
Ismael’s tomb, at Mekkah, 604
Ismaili, town (on the Kanin), 199
, or Assassins, ancient people of, 542
, tenets of, 542
, have their principal seat at Kal’at-el-
Maszyad, 542
, rites of the, 543
, name from Hacchis-shin, 543
Ismid, or Isnikmid (Nicomedia), 321, 323
, gulf of Bithynia, 322
Ispahan, city, description of, 214, 215
, suburbs of, or Julfa, 214
, bazars of, 214, 215
, population of, 215
—-—, taxes of, 260
, salt desert around, 78
Xssus, gulf of, description, 408
, ruins, or Nicopolis, 408
Istifan (Stephane), town (of Kastamuni),
330
Iturea, ancient province (eastward of the
Jordan), 521, 522
Iverne, river, boundary (of the ancient Amazons),
140
Izedi, or Yezidi, tribes in Sinjar, 113
, of Sheikh Adi, eastward of the Tigris,
113
Izirefft, town (of Carmania Felix), 231
Izmir (Smyrna), town and inlet, 309, 312
Iznik, lake, 322
, village, once Nicaea ' (on Lake Ascania),
323
Ja’ber Castle (on the Euphrates), 48
Jabesh Gilead (in the Decapolis), 512, 513
Jabok, or Zerka valley (in Decapolis) 512
Jabul, salt lake of (pashalik of Aleppo), 415
Jacobites (in Syria), 111
Jacob’s Field (near Nabulus), 490
Jadis, tribe of Cushite Arabs (once near
Bahrein), 659
Jaffa, or Yafa, climate of, 534
, Japho and Japha, city described, 491
, history of, 491
1 ancient names of, 492
Jaffea, province (of Arabia), situation and
extent of, 635
, government ofj 635
Jafofe, village (in Upper Tahameh), 611