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2 CHAP. IL
3 MOUNTAINS OF AFOHAUNISTAVN.
4 I HAVE alieady described the general ooune of the great ridge of
5 Hiiidoo Goodi, and have traced the lower ranges on its touthem aide
6 aa &r east as the Indus. I shall now proceed to a particular descrip-
7 tion of the part which bounds A^aunistaun on the north.
8 From the Indus to longitude 71% it pursues a westerly oouise ; but,
9 from that point, its directum becomes uncratain. To a person view-
10 ing it from the south, the snowy ridge appears to make a considefable
11 cnrre towards him : but, our information leaves it doubtfu], whether
12 it does make such a curre^ whether the principal range oondnues ita
13 weateily oouisef and sends out a branch towards the south» or wh^
14 ther It is crossed by Beloot Taugh* which joins it at the point oppc^
15 site to the place where the mountain i^pears to behd.
16 From the Indus to this curve is the part of these mountains with
17 which I am best aoqnaintecU having seen it for some months frnm
18 Peshawer $ and, a particular account of it, may serre to ffve an idea
19 of the rest of the range.
20 On entering the plain of Peshawer, on the 21th of February, 1809,
21 four ranges of mountaiiis were distinctly seen on the north. The
22 lowest range had no snow. The tops of the second were oomed
23 with it, as was the third, half-way down.
24 The Iburtli wa-s tlie principal range of the Indian Caucasus, which
25 is always covered with snow, is conf?p!cuous from Bactria, and the
26 borders of India, and is seen from places far off in Tartary. We first
27 saw these mountains at tlie distance of one hundred miles ; but, they
28 would have been visible long before, if the view had not been shut
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