32/76 35' E.; and flows towards the Persian Gulf with a course which is north-west to Failiyun, then nearly W.to Zehitun, after which it becomes somewhat south of west to Hindyan, and then S.W.by S.to the sea. The length of the stream, without counting lesser windings, is 200 miles; its width at Hindyan, sixteen miles above its mouth, is eighty yards, and to this distance it is navigable for boats of twenty tons burthen. At first its waters are pure and sweet, but they gradually become corrupted, and at Hindyan they are so brackish as not to be fit for use. The Jerahi rises from several sources in the Kuh Margun, a lofty and precipitous range, forming the continuation of the chain of Zagros. |