Abuschehie, a town of Persia, in the province of Pars, situated in the Persian Gulf. The surrounding country is a parched and barren desert, consisting of brown sand or gray clay and rock, unenlivened by any kind of vegetation. The town, which is of a triangular form, occupies the northern extremity of a peninsula eleven miles long and four broad, and is encircled by the sea on all sides except the south. It is fortified on the land side by a mud wall with round towers. The houses being mostly built of white stone gives the city when viewed from a distance a rather clean and handsome appearance, but on closer inspection the streets are found to be narrow, irregular, ill-paved, and filthy. Almost the only handsome buildings are the sheik's palace and the East India Company's factory. Ships of 300 tons are obliged to lie in the roads six miles from the town. The water immediately east of the town is deep, but its navigation is impeded by a bar, which can only be passed by vessels drawing not more than eight or nine feet of water, except at spring-tides, when there is a rise of from eight to ten feet. It carries on a considerable trade, particularly with Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras. Its imports are indigo, sugar, rice, spices, steel, cotton and woollen goods, coffee, &c.; and its principal exports are raw silk, Kerman wool, shawls, silk goods, carpets, horses, dried fruits, wine, grain, copper, turquoises, pearls, assafetida, and gall-nuts. The climate is excessively hot, particularly in the months of June, July, and August. The water is very bad; that fit for drinking requires to be brought in goat skins a distance of 16 miles. Pop. variously estimated at from 10,000 to 20,000.