1 gah : from their source to Koondooz is a hundred uiiies, where the uame is
2 iMt Jn-tfaiAroif tbir AknornL From- Koomdoogtoi tiie jimction <he Ow
3 11 ibrty iiul«k HwiHioie ooune it noriiierlj, nd thajr i«n biloiir Huianiti*
4 mam. about eight or ten coss. The Tui khar rises in the Iiigh land •patli ift
5 Fyzabad, or the hiUs which separate Budukhshan irom the Kafirs ; and the
6 Buiigee, which is equal to it, rises in Durra Turring. They join ten coss
7 below Talikan. Their courj»e is equal to that of the Ghorce, which tliey join
8 as before meotioQed. After the junction oi all tiiede rivers, tlie stream mu»t
9 be a wry ttooridanifale^onet h w nol ftxdable, but all theie txrtn Mpanlelj
10 are. Their ooune is thieqgh a moonteiiious countfy* bol eontaiiriaig many
11 eicesnvely rich and ftrtSe vaUeyit pnoducing all kinds of fruit in die greatesl
12 abundance : from the accounts I have got of thia part of the oodntij, the
13 valkgn appear to be a oomplete gacden.
14 TBB HUHiAE OE sjimnBur rnn.
15 This river risee in a bi|^ ridge of mountains which rum fiom tfie BHner
16 lidge south, and s^aniles Bokhara from Kuretageen, east and west. Its
17 course is south -sowth-west, runniiifr thron?li the Kuretageen country and
18 Uisiiar Ibr sixty miles ; it joins the ivuratali river above Regur ami below
19 Uimr Bala. The Kurratak rises in Uie same hills, and has a souUi-east
20 comae to die jtmctxnb Vnm fids seme osU the joint streams the HIssar*
21 hnt X itUnk improper^, fiir.the joint streams «hoiiId retain the name of the
22 largest river, which is the Kafir Nihan ; and from a route H^hkh crosam H a
23 little abo\'e its junction with the Oxus, It is called by this name. FVom Hisar
24 to XinnooSf above which they join the Oauu* is seventy miiea.
25 TBB TimUVSRAlf.
26 ' Tbim river has its source in the same mountains as the rivers last mentioned*
27 but on the western or opposite side to them. A great branch of this river
28 formerly ran past the town of Sheeraz twenty-four miles north of Samarlv and,
29 but tor many years the whole has run past Samarkand north of it three coss
30 in a w^terly directiou, and aince tliat time tlie town of Sheeraz has been
31 dmnlahi i this plads of cobkm caanot be miat^vii fu Ibe famous SheeraB it
32 Hhe .soiitii oC FeAia. This tmr has a mndi les^ eaucse tfann any yet
33 Digitizer oogle