1 <>iiiwiH ] THE BIFER'fllHR.' SSI
2 mentioned as falling into the Oxus, but nothing like so great a body of
3 water, being fordaUe all ovw, woeptiiig wlmi ^ mow nielte. Tarn its
4 long ooune over a sandy oountiy, the gveater part of it is soaked beftra
5 it veacfaea Bolclu«» aod att this pmnt tibtere is scarceljF stream sft alL ' It
6 fidi into the Oxus two marches west of Bolchan after a westeooth-WHt
7 ooune cf two hundred and qgh^ miles. »
8 Rubs in lAe Huzara hiUs noftii of the otmtinoafeion of the Hindoe Koosb
9 fidge, and south of Mymuna : it is carried west, confined between hills for
10 seventy miles, when it passes to the north, quitting the hills and parsing
11 over a desert country for about two huudied miles, joins the Oxns three
12 marches west of Bokhara. This* howev£r, is only heard by uiy luiurtnant,
13 and may be wrong. It i^pcara, howevei^ very probable, fiir. it is crossed
14 two matches from the left bank of the Oxus on the road fiom Bokhantn "
15 Herat via Mour, and it is probable that it joins the Oxus not ftrfiom 'this
16 point, which is also stated to be the case by the man who gave this route. '
17 The course of fliis river from its source is two hundred and seventy miles.
18 Its hreailth in the cold seasou 15 irom fifty to seventy yards, auud two feet
19 and a iiail deep.
20 m uvea sia&
21 I HAVX been informed that this river join? the Oxtis abont one hundred
22 C03S west-north-west of Bokhara^ but this cannot by any means be depended
23 on i and very little information lias been obtained regarding the course of
24 tinsixver. ItsceoiieMtotheaoirtiiofiiest, itbemigcnswedbytiie Bussfam
25 caiamuis noKtii-iiorth.west of Bokhan Inar or five days' journey, mid the
26 distance would give it about tiiat coarse, ftom Kokun I have got ftor d«^
27 march along its left bank from Khoojund to Kokuo. It is said to be larger
28 here than the Indus, tind ^-mailer ^lan the Oxus. A stream joins it near
29 Kokun, which rises soutli in the Pamer ridge, and nina north .seventy miles
30 to its junctiou. At Kokuu it divides into two branches, and passes the town
31 eastsndwest
32 4 o ft
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