1 SUFFAID COH. 101
2 like ridge is aatjM to liMJe dodbt From Uie Jadmiti oomitty, its
3 direetioDf sod even its^odntiiudty become mora questioiisble^ bui» ss
4 it is certain that hills, which it takes two days journeys to pass
5 arm, are cvossed faj traveUers from Kauneegoonum to Ootj^maa^ ?re
6 may safely conjecture that this is the ridge in question, and may pre-
7 sume that the hills irtiich we find still farther south, • on the left <)£
8 the river Gomnl, are a continuation of it: certain it is» that from the
9 Jaudraun country to the Gomul, is a mountainous cotmtiys t**'^*^
10 with pine forests, which shelters the wild hill tnbe of Yizeeree.
11 From the Gomul the course of the hills again becomes certain, and
12 is continued tlirongh the country of the Sheeraunees, and that of the
13 Zmurrees, from whence it eztenda to latitude 2Q\ where k seems to
14 end.
15 Tlic hoifrlit of the Solimaun range, thouLrli much interior to that of
16 Hindoo Coosli, is still consideralile. Its fii^hest pnrt is undoubtedly
17 near its commencement. Suftaid Coh is covered with snow through-
18 out the year, but I believe no odier part of the rnnffe has snow after
19 the end of spring; some, however of those, as f":ii south as latitude
20 81", have snow upon tlu;ai in \s inter, which is a proof of no incon-
21 aiderahlc altitude in so low a luLilade.
22 The part inhabited by the Wuzeerees, is probably as nmcli raised
23 above the surrounding country, as that which belongs to the Jadraunsj
24 but its abst^te height is in^k>r, as the country at its base slopes
25 mtKh to the soodiward. la tiie southern part of the Wnseeree
26 countiy> where tins range is passed through by the nTer Gomul* it is
27 low in bodi sensest but it rises again in the Sbeeiannee coontry, and
28 finrns tile Idfy mountain of Cussay Ghur, of wiiidi the Tokbt SoE-
29 mauUf or Solomon's lliron^ is the highest pealt *, snow lies on this
30 peak Ibr three months in the year, and on the surrounding mountains
31 for twob The countiy of tfae Zmursees is certainly as hi^ as most
32 parts' of Cussay Gbur, but I hanre not the means of judging of the
33 heigiit or character of the range to the southward of this point
34 From' the southern boundaiy of A4^iannistann» as % north as.the
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