1 AUNGAUR.
2 The nature ot" the valleys in this part of the range caiiiiot well be
3 understood until i Imve described the space into which thev all open.
4 1 iiib is the valley of the Caiibul river, which separates tlie southern
5 projection of Hindoo Coosh from the mountains of Solimaun, and
6 seems to be a breBch in a continued chain once formed by those
7 lidgea. Hie breidlii between them is now in loiiie pieces twoity-
8 fiyetnllefl.
9 U is occupied towaids tbe east bj hilb, wbicb stretch from iiioinw>
10 tain to moiiiitauii,thoi]^ firom their very inferior height, they cannot
11 ' be said to preserve the continiiify of the range. West of those- hiDs
12 is the plain of. JeUallabad, and still fiurthor west the country rises so
13 much, that although Gundamnk be in a valley with respect to the
14 Bouthem'projection, or to the hills of Solimann» it is on a mountain
15 when compared with Jellallabad* The river of Caabid flows through
16 the oentie of the space which I have been describing) and into k, as
17 I have already mentionedf all the vaUeys in this part of Hindoo
18 Coosh open* The first of these to the west of B^nr is Coonner,
19 through which the great river of Kanshkanr runs to join that of Cau-
20 buL The cUmate of the lower part of Coonner is very hot. The
21 U^per part terminates In^ long glens, many of which point north-west
22 towards the high snowy peak of Coond, which is probably the point
23 of the southern projection. Coonner is inhabited by a peculiar peopfe
24 called Derrcrauns, who will be mentioned hereafter.
25 At Mundroor, about twenty miles to the west of Coonner, the water
26 of Alingaur joins the Caubul rive::. It comes down a valley, at the
27 upper part of which two others join, and form a figiue like the letter
28 Y; the ea^stern one is calierl Alingaur, and the western AHshung.
29 Each of them runs into (he inouni .lins for about twenty miles. These
30 valleys, with the plain of Jeilaliabad, aiiri the surrounding mountains,
31 form the district of Lnghmaun. Alingaui is a widt \ alley inhabited
32 by Ghiljies. Its head inclines nortli-east towards Cooiid. It
33 duces all sorts of grain, and many glens open into it on the right aiul
34 left* some of which are only s^arated by narrow sunmiits Irom those
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