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THE

GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS

OF

SÁDIK ISFAHANI.

N. I.

An Essay entitled TAHKÍK AL IRÁB, ascertaining the true pronunciation of the names of places, countries, cities, villages, rivers, and mountains; with short descriptions.

THE

GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS

OF

SÁDIK ISFAHANI.

No. I.

رساله تحقیق الاعراب اسماء البلدان

An Essay entitled TAHKÍK AL IRÁB, ascertaining the true pronunciation of the names of places, countries, cities, villages, rivers, and mountains; with short descriptions.

THE LETTER 1.

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ÁTIL,' a river of the Dasht-i-Kibchák ; * it rises among the mountains of Bulghár,' and flows into the Sea of Gílán.*

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* An extensive region lying northward of the Caspian Sea, and inhabited by a tribe of Eastern Turks or Tátárs, who, according to D'Herbelot, obtained the name of Cabgiak, Captchak, or Kiptchak, from their Prince Oghúz Khán, on the following occasion:-A woman far advanced in pregnancy, to avoid the horrors of a battle, in which her husband was killed,

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ÁCHÍN,' (a name equivalent in rhyme or metre

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to Máchín,) is a well-known island in the Chi

nese Sea, near to the equinoctial line.*

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ÁZADÁN,*† a village belonging to Isfahan.3
ÁKSU, a city of Moghulistán." +

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concealed herself in a hollow tree, and there produced a son, whom Oghúz Khán named Cabgiak; which, says D'Herbelot, signifies in the Turkish language, “the bark of a tree." This boy was adopted by the prince, and in process of time his descendants spread themselves over the great desert or plain that bears his name. (See the Bibliothèque Orientale" in

Cabgiak.)

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Mr. Hamilton, in his "East India Gazetteer," describes Acheen as a petty state or principality, with a town of the same name, situated in the north-western extremity of the island of Sumatra.

+ From Sir Wm. Ouseley's letter, quoted in the Preface, it appears that this village (Ázádán) gave a surname to the father of Mirza Muhammed Sadik the author.

Here is inserted (in the original manuscript), between "" "ÁKSU" and 66 ÁBKHAZ," the name "ÁK KUINLAH" (all) which, without mention of any particular place, is described as the denomination bestowed on a Turkomán tribe, one of whose ancestors had two sons, and divided between

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