1 KOrrCB BEOABDIKO THE ICAP.
2 the authority on wliich it has been placed in the position now generally
3 adopted- Major Rennell proceeded on the information ot Mr. Foster ; but
4 that traveller observes that the road from Gimmuch(Diinmuk)toHerautUa8
5 nearly a northern course (VoL IL Page 115), and if audi ft dinctkn W«fe
6 ^ven fioD the point fixed fbr Gimmudi in M^or Bcnndl's Mtip, it mwld
7 bring HefMttnMMrtotbepoatiittMMgiiedtoitby
8 other that lies jet been thought of.
9 Mr. Macartney liad placed Bokhara in latitude 37= 45' north, and longitude
10 6f 10 east, which was so contrary- to received opinious, that i was induced to
11 exanune it particularly ; and I soon found it equally inconsistent with my
12 own information. 1 have no doubt Mr. Macartney was under a mistake and
13 lhat he was led into it, partly by a very enooeods mte (the only one hepoe*
14 aesaed between Heraat and Bokhara), and partly by hia overlooking the pro- .
15 veriiial length of the marches in Toorldstaun. My information confirms his
16 poflitiona on the toad& to Bokhara, south of Hindoo Coosh ; but from that
17 mountain I find many of them too short. I am not satisfied witli my own
18 position of Bokhara, which is in 39° 27' north latitude, and 62° 45' ea.^t lonc^i-
19 tude. Anthony Jenkinson, who took an observation in 155B, declares tiie
20 latitude to be 39* 10' $ while lfr.lliofiHWBi» win viaM Bokhaia''kk.i74o,
21 aMertB it to be in latitude 39* 30^* though without wyiag whillier <he bad
22 obterved it or not Mfl|or Rennel places it some ndniftes to tlie south of
23 jqT 30^: but the greatest variation is in the longitude, wliich Major Rennel
24 fives upwards of forty minute; further west than I have done. I should have
25 bcvA) inclined to adopt his account irom respect ibrtusauthorily, but it could
26 not be reconciled to my intormation. •
27 On the whole« I cannot hope for nuch aecuracy in rajdabai^ of.tfie ni^
28 haniig never before attempted an j thing of the Idnd | but I hope it may be
29 niefiil till noinething better ia hrout^t forward, and that, even- itfler the priiu
30 cipal poinia are Hxed with flKne acoisacy, the Intermediate rootea will be
31 found of some aervioe* -
32 • The route from Bokhara to Cliushmch Morco, and that from Bulkli to tho same place were
33 taken down from the infornoation of a rery intelli^enl native of tlie last named city : they were
34 dten protracted without the least alteratioa in the distances or directions, and agreed within a m3«
35 «rtirointli«MMitioBofCbiwhindiMot«e. I «m obliged to alter Ui« directum of m/im^riMle
36 from Ghoafanm Mbrae to Herant. The ftmner direction would fan placed Henuit twenty
37 ■tlee weat of it* present Kituatioo, wlridi could not have been reconciled to die route to the same
38 dty ftom Merocnaak. The third rente fVoni Kubbermauch was taken Iroin Mr. Macartney's
39 mop, without any alteration in the distances. It was inserted into mine after all the a ljoiiiing
40 posilions had been fixed, aud titttd its place with the utmost exactuess. it i* worth wltile to
41 observe that (he place where Mour or Mcrvc falls in these routes, is nfwrljf Thtl MOW m AM
42 wtigiied to it by Mr. Macdonald Kionier on grounds cattirdy diMinct.
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