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2 Ttis mvcB ammd; or oxusl
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4 The stream is seen coming from under the ice, which is stated to be at least
5 forty spears in depth. The spring ita^ couid not be seen in consequence of
6 the great maw of wa ftnnodow ii, bat tlMm-cn-be no doubt of tbe ^ring's
7 bcmg on tibis bill under the ioe^ ftr it does niol appear that ^heie -ivBB^aaj
8 open 'Or bceak in any of ^ three sidm maitioned, by which it oould'conie
9 from a more distant point. I, therefore, conclude that this is the' true bead
10 of the Ox us; at all events, the greatest body of water, thoupli there are
11 otiiers which may have a more distant source. It is carried nortii in this
12 narrow valley ibr tive ams i at four cosh it is twenty yards broad, and breast
13 deep} and on leaving the vaUeft ' after hnriqg been joined by many other
14 flpriogi fieas tibe fame hOl, it k fifty yanh^ and mid^ deep, itie Slnber, Or
15 Adum-Koosh, jbini it five coss abo^'e the- junotiaiij %as niddle deep, and
16 sixty yards broad, so that the Punj, or Ammu, was nearly equal to it at the
17 distance of five cfws from its source, and having twenty coss further to run
18 beture its jiiucuuu with the Shibcr, it must have attained a very considerable
19 size, particularly as it appears tiiat seven or eight streams frooi knee to inidp
20 die deoj^ and ftom ten to thirty yardi^broad, joined it in this diittanoe froih
21 tbe left bank. 'I think' there can be no doubt of its' being mtuh larger than
22 Hie S6iber at tlieir junction» and It appears wdl aacOrtained tibat the Ammu
23 bears tlie name Punj for a considerable distance from its source. The place
24 has been seen by two people, who gave the same accounts, and I have h^ard
25 it from several who did not see it, but Imd heard that it rose iu the valley of
26 Wuklian, or Irom the high snowy mountain of Pooslitikhur. I have routes
27 nbjcfa run east and west of this point to Yarimnd* in a northeEly di^ieGtion»'
28 and meet to the north of this pdhit, loaWng it wtHun the aii^e.- If tins
29 stream had a more dartant soiiroe, one of these two lOUtss iBOSt have clossod
30 it, which it does not appear they did.
31 'J'ht' roar! to the lett or wc^t, crossed the Shibrr five coss from Kila Shah-
32 jehan, which was the only siieatu ol any consequence crossed up to the
33 junction of the two roads. The road to the right or east passed PooahtikhUr
34 about fiiri^edss to the right, leaving i< to tbe'left. Hie voad a|lpeain tolead
35 along tiie Kasbgar river or Kaaunn to this point* and nothing but HfPidets^
36 were crossed up to the junction of the western road, which left Pobsbtikhllt
37 to the right. It is evident from this that tha Ptani ^"""^ '1*^ ONSSad
38 had it a more distant source.
39 .1 shall here leave its source and follow it in a soutti-south-west direction
40 for a hundred and twenty miles, where it meets a high ridge of mbuntaiiiB
41 Tuaning'firem waabjbofd^warit t6 HMt'innth Htt j flNHU thb poitat it triM a
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