a district in the province of Beloochistan, situated at the bottom of the mountains lying south-east of Kelat. It is about 150 miles in length, and forty or fifty in breadth. The soil is rich, black, and loamy, and produces every species of grain, as also cotton, indigo, madder, and other commodities. The rains are heavy in June, July, and August; it rains also, but not so heavily, in the spring months. The climate during the summer is unhealthy, owing to the simoon or pestilential wind which blows at that time, by which many people lose their lives. Great quantities of grain are exported from this district to the sea-ports of Curachee and Sonnecane, whence it is shipped to Muscat, on the coast of Mekran. In unfavourable seasons it is also sent to the mountainous country.