1 «v! MOTTCB HEOARDINO THE BCAP.
2 becai!'?*» it ]<! procured from the natives; and it might be urged, that the
3 Algiiauns are remarkable for observation and veracity, and that it is common
4 among them ibr a man to repeat a route alter a long interv al, without vas)'
5 ing ddier in fbe diatttice <u direction «f • noj^ stage ; but ibts qnefltion '
6 if of tiie lew cootequeDoe^ noUung is Imown of the geogiiplij of tihe
7 oountriet in question that il not derived from the natives. Mr. Foster, it
8 il true, lias publidied tiia route througli the Caubul dominions, but he gives
9 the number of Jarsangs in each stage, according to the information he re-
10 ceived, and not the number of mileSf as he wouid liave done had his distances
11 been the result of his own observations. I consider this preference of Mr.
12 Ibster's as a proof of his judgment, for he had no instnunents, and, how-
13 ever soperior he waa to the natives in all tlie other zequiaitea of a traveller*
14 he could not he so good n judge of the length of « stage as a perHm who
15 had often travelled il* and nw bcsidas accustomed to esttmate the rate at
16 which camels move.
17 The principal alterations I have myself made in the map lie to the south
18 of Ghuznee, and to the north of Hindoo Coosh. Mr. Macartney ])osscssed
19 fewer routes in the south of Afghauuistaun than in any otiier paii. of die
20 hangdom* and the infonnation I obtained in the Deocan refimed principally
21 to that quarter; I therefbra constructed the southOTi part of the niap anew,
22 and am answerable for as much of the tract between the parallds of Ghuznee
23 and Shikarpoor, as lies west of the range of Solimaun, and south of the
24 river Tumuk. In framing this I derived great advantage from using
25 Kelauti Nusseer Khann (the position of which has been ascertained by
26 Messrs. Christie and Fottinger) lur one of my dxed points, as well as from
27 the meaw I possessed of tettling the position of Dauder with tolerable pre*
28 dsion. It stiU stands nearly ^riiere LUutenant Macartnej put it ( but hu
29 judgment has been confirmed by many routes of mine, and by a map drawn
30 up by Mr« Fbttinger, in which it is placed within a few mil^ of its position
31 in Mr. Macartney's map. All to the south of the parallel of Shikarpoor
32 will be found in the printed maps: I have notliing to add to the public
33 information. In the south west I have availed myself of Mr. Christie's
34 route, (published fay Mr. Macdonald Kinnier) for fixing the position of
35 JeUsUabed in Seestaun. i have nuMle but a alight deviation fronithe panted
36 jvatB, and that ibr leaaoos #hich appeared to jnstiiy the change ; but I
37 have retained Furrah wd Hennt in ^ situations assigned to them by Mr.
38 Macartney. No other position of Heraut would agree with Mr. Macartney's
39 routes* or my own inlbrmation* I have not indeed been able to ascerlam
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