1 TUB VAMER RIDOE.
2 I commenced at north-east of Cashmeer, has a south-east course running
3 along tiie heads of the rivers of tlie Pimjaub, passing to tiie north of Kot
4 Kangra, Bilaspoor, and Siveuugur, cnmog tfac liMtda of the Jimoift aad
5 -Gn^} after whicfa tiieir coune ia Mmthefly. This ridge is perfectly void
6 nf verdura tomndt thoranimiiitib but their base n well wooded; their eodi^
7 mite appeer exoeMdvidy rogged* hawing many high and very remarkablepeaks,
8 but unfortunately we marched from Peshour at a time when they were not
9 visible, otherwi-^e the exact wimlinj^ of tlie ridge irom Julaiabad to &ea-
10 nuggur. might have been got by crosa bearings.
11 IL m r Aim niMK.
12 Taoom this ridge u inferior in height to the last, die land on which it
13 runs, appears to me much higher, for in travelling to the north from the
14 Hindoo Koosh ridge, the ascent appears to be very considerable, and as a
15 prooi of it, all the rivers which have their source in tliis ridge, have a
16 ■outheriy course tiU they aieet the high hud of Hindoo Koosh, after which
17 thqr ran weat and weBfeauirth.«est after joining the Qxni. Hue river meela
18 the high lands of Hindoo Koosh north-east of Bnlkh at Huzmtinieani* one
19 dq^ iKMlJi of the hills where the £U1 from them towards the iKMrth appean
20 to terminate ; and this may be considered the h)wp'?t part between the two
21 ridge'?^ but as the rivers which issue from the Pamer ridge, have a southern
22 course ol from two to three degrees, and tiiose from Hindoo Ko<^ one
23 from one to one-half degree, and both being equally rapid, I think it is a
24 •mng proof that tho land ef Buner ia ooorideraUjr higher than thet of
25 Hindoo Kooah) butaatfaehiUa which nin north of this high kudfiomaboot
26 weit-north-west to east^oth-eaat (aa appears by the joofeea whidi cioia theai
27 at different distant point*), are only one day's jdurney across, and the Hin-
28 doo Komh ridge in many places two days; tlie latter one may be ron'^idercd
29 the greatest, though the ridge on which they run is mlienor. Tiiih ruii^t?,
30 like the Hindoo Koosh, has unfortunately no general name by which they
31 «aa be tnoed and known at dilfaentifialantpointiib hvt fidm the finowhig
32 tnutea cnwdng a hi^ ri4ge one daf'a journey aeieasb and ooveeed with
33 anow Ar Ihe greater part of the year, and at the di&rent points the nvtn
34 runnins; north and south from them, I can have no doubt of its being one
35 rid^e inmi Aksoo, south-ca'^t of Khoojund to near Leh or Luddaclc, where
36 I have lost them. The routes whidi cross them neariy in the same pntiUkl
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