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6 and Kauflhkaur, mountainous countries df no great extent. To the
7 north-w^. of the kit mentioned country, is the pbin of Funcm
8 I Kaothkaur uid Famere are bounded on the west hy a range of mouiip
9 ; tuns, which runs from the chain of Mooz Taugh to that uf Hindoo
10 Coosb, and which supports the western face of the Table Land.
11 ; This range, though inferior in height to that of Hindoo Coosh, has
12 snow on its summits throughout the most part of the year, at lea^jt as
13 far as its junc t ion with Mooz Taugh. It leaves the range of Hindoo
14 C«H»^h in longitude 71 ' east, and runs in a direction to the ea<;t ot
15 north, till it rneets Mooz Taugh : a range of mountains running also
16 north and south, is crossed further north hy tiie road from Kokaun
17 to Cashgar, and niuA be considered as a continuanoii of this chain.
18 It is there lower ilian before ; so that it is only hi severe seasons that
19 it retains its snow longer than the beginning of summer : a little
20 to the north of this road, it gives rise to (he Jaxartes ; and beyond
21 tius my inlfaffmfltiffli oenes. Our maps, however, continue it towsfds
22 the nozth, till it leaches a lange of mountains which divides Chinese
23 Tartaiy from SQwria, and separates the wsitav of the fonner .oountiy
24 j fiom those that flow into the Aictic Ocean. .
25 Our nu^ call the range which runs fiom Moos Tau^ to Hindoo
26 Cooah» Bdnr Tag, whidi is evidently a corruption of the INirkiah
27 wQiA BdwA Tmi^ oar Cloudy Mountains ; as I know of no g^oeral
28 name iqpiilied fay the people of Toorkistaun to this range, I shall use
29 Ihe term Beloot Tsn^ ibc it, on the &w occasions I shall have for
30 moitioning it
31 Beloot Taug^ forms the boundary between the political divisions -
32 of Independent Toorkistaun and Chinese Toorkistaun. It also forms
33 I these two countries into two ni^ural divisions, since it separates thdr^
34 istreamSf and gives rise to rivers which water both countries.
35 I know of no branches sent out by Beloot Taugh towards the east.
36 To the west it sends out several branches, which, with the valleys be-
37 tween them, form the hitiv rotnUries of Kurrateggeen, Slioi^'hnaun,
38 and Durwaus. The most southerly of them bounds Budukhahaua on
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