1 'and tlie Paropanman mountains, which ought to be mentioned witli
2 ToorkisUau f a'? its principal population is Uzbek), tliough it is a pro-
3 vince of Caubiil. It has Butiukshauii on the cast ; and the thinly in-
4 habited t (mill I \ , which joins to its west, about Shibbergaun, is mclad*
5 ed in Ivliorassami. The ojuntry slopes towards the Oxus. Small as
6 it is, it inchidci hcverai piiueipalities ; and is diversilied with liiil and
7 plain, marsh and desart. Our geographers coramonlj call the whole
8 division Bulkh, from the principal city it contains, Tliis name is in-
9 Mwrate ; imt * at I know no odier general name ior the wboltf taet^
10 I dmlk fsoodiiiie to apply it to Ab dmUoii, whidi^ I dnfl;ddM
11 my aooonnt liie oomitry noith o£HindM CooA>
12 ' Hie dMuitnes immedialrfy to the •onOi of HednUelnmd'Htkdflit
13 Gboih ate reiidmd. ragged by lower moiinteiii%'whioli ran -pendlelte
14 thegfeet nyage» aad- bybfwcfaea which UNue ftom it. Jn But^xSiy
15 vegpOM thw Mned are AilMni Beptwit -NipeiiU Kunmoa^ MiBi fli*
16 rteiiggurr ^1 imder Hcmillefa. Where Ciie gieeti'nttige t»ri» 'tty
17 file wert, diew lopwer mountdiis eie moie feiiuite.fidiii lt»' end-tke ^•
18 Ugjh Telley of Cmhieher oeeaiue*.'l&e imerviiL' To tfafe mii£bt 4dA
19 iOQtib<we8t of OMhmoer> ia a mouDtmoui cbiiiili^yf .wlueh boosAi Ai^
20 AmjaMb cn the north» end si^lieB its ttremii with water ; £hr»of the
21 Sm.nr&n^ which inteniecl; tiiot country, the Hydaapee aloseciiBiea
22 thnpQ|^ Caahmeer, aiid has its sonroe in l^ie more remote mount^he
23 on the north. This mountainous country is inhabited by difierent
24 ngsB of Iwlisn descent - The plains of the Punjaub» with some trifl*
25 ing esceptioiiir belmig to- the Siks ; and, from the southern frontier
26 of that cQcrata7» there.eaEfeenda a saad^ desert, elmoet* to the,ge)|ih of
27 Cutch*
28 This desart, which is about four hundred miles broad from east to
29 west, is in some places entirely uninhabited, and, in others, thinly
30 flcatteiedt with yiUages, and cultivaition. The greater part, if not the
31 * It might perhaps have b€«Q prdenible to have tlie nunie ot* Bactria, tiiuugh that
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