1 and, as the surrounding countries mav not be sufficiently familiar to
2 my r^ulers, to enable ihem to undei stiuid the limits of the kinirdom,
3 or the frequent allusions to its neighbouring states^ I aliaii b^in witk
4 a slight account of the part of Asia in which it is situated.
5 If we traverse the iuti^doms of Hmdoataii and Caubui, trom the
6 Mat of Bengal to Henot, we shall find them every where bounded
7 on the north by a diflin of nomitauis which is covered with perpetual
8 iiMnr, ahnoat tfa» whole of that €Xtflat» and from which all the
9 great rivon of both oonntriw appear to UBoa. "Biisdiauiooimneiioea
10 near the Bommpooter, and tuna neadjuocth-weflt aa ftr as Gaah-
11 meer: during lifab part of ita oouiae it ia called Hemalleh by the
12 nithrea of the ndg^ibonring oountriea. Fraoi-Gaahnieer ita graend
13 diieotion ia a little to the aoiith-i«peat> aa fiur.aa the hiffk anowy peak
14 of Hindoo Coosh, nearly nofdi of CanbnL Prom thia peak ita hei^
15 diniinidiea» it no longer bears perpetual snow, and is soon aftffl' lost
16 in a gnnpBci momitains* wtuch stretch in length from Caubui almost
17 to Heraut, and ceeapy more than two degrees of latitude in their
18 breadth. Some ranges issue from this maaa on the west* and extend
19 go far into Persia, as to justify, if not completely to establish, the
20 opinion of the ancients, which connected the range I have be^ de*
21 scribing, with mount C aucasus on the west ot the Caspian sea. *
22 From Cashmeer to Hindoo Coo-vh, the whole range is known by
23 the name of that peak. From thence to the meridian of Heraut, the
24 mouulains have no general name among the natives, and I shall call
25 them by that of Paropamisus, which is already applictl to them by
26 European GeograpliL Ts. But, although the chain of mountains which
27 I have described, appears troni the south to form the natural boun-
28 • The follo\', inn- pa«?age in Arrinn (hook Hi. r^mp. iS.) will show the oxtr-nt firtrihtitri? hy
29 the Greek* to thin mountain. It is mtruductxi when Alexandor arrives at the ibot of mount
30 Chiwawi at apoint ivltidi all geografdien have pland-in die iiriglihiwilMWifl OmMiMr.
31 X> it ^ Xȴ**c9< th^nXOT fta tfii, &c. &c &C. " The mpuiitnin of Caucasus is fAid by
32 Aristobuliu to be aa high as any in Asia, but it ia bm in most parts, aod paiticularlj ia
33 ** this place. It stretche* for a great extent, «o Aat mount Taurus, wlildi dlvids FteiK
34 **phj4^lirandicia, ia said tabs partof it, as well as other high mountains, distinguished
35 ** Gkmu CaneaSUt by vnrioTi«: Tinrnf»<?, »ir!-?nc^ from thf fliffen'nt nations to whnw country
36 ** extend." A more detailed account ot tiua moiuiuun will be tuund m tlie same
37 mtar, book dnfi. 3 md {. and in FBoykNatarsl EHMai;^^ boA« ds^h a;.
38 • If 3