Its Temperature At The Source
Is 113 Degrees, And Its Therapeutic Properties Are Highly Appreciated.
As
to the bitterness of the bread, it is suggested in the notes that it was
caused by being
Mixed with acorns, but, to-day at any rate, there are no
oak forests in this part of Persia, and I would urge that it is better to
accept our traveller's statement, that it was due to the bitterness of the
water." - However, I prefer Gen. Houtum-Schindler's theory. - H. C.]
[1] It is but fair to say that scholars so eminent as Professors Sprenger
and Blochmann have considered the original suggestion lawful and
probable. Indeed, Mr. Blochmann says in a letter: "After studying a
language for years, one acquires a natural feeling for anything
un-idiomatic; but I must confess I see nothing un-Persian in
rudbar-i-duzd, nor in rudbar-i-lass.... How common lass is, you
may see from one fact, that it occurs in children's reading-books." We
must not take Reobarles in Marco's French as rhyming to (French)
Charles; every syllable sounds. It is remarkable that Las, as the
name of a small State near our Sind frontier, is said to mean, "in the
language of the country," a level plain. (J. A. S. B. VIII. 195.)
It is not clear what is meant by the language of the country. The
chief is a Brahui, the people are Lumri or Numri Biluchis, who are,
according to Tod, of Jat descent.
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