1 AwMimu] TBS ABBA SBE!t. ^gg
2 TBB ABBA ttBir.
3 *
4 Therk appears to be a dillerence of opinion regarding this name ; some
5 tliink the great branch which 1 have mentioned as coming Irom Dras, is
6 called the Abba ^eu, but 1 have heard otherwise, and have routes from
7 Feshour Mid Auock to the source of what I have heard called the Abba
8 Seen, which may, however, be wrong, but I h«ve no prooft. to the oontraiy,
9 end what iolbrautMni I Have got, I shall itateu The ixmte ftom Peahonr to
10 this point, is along the Swrul i iver, which had its aovrce from the same hillB,
11 The hill from which tlie Abba Seen issues, is called Son Chukesur, the bear*
12 iiiL' of which from Fc?hour was north-east 34^ 30'. Tiiis spring i*; cnlled at
13 tiie place Sire Abba vSceu ; the hill is one of the Hiudoo JsLoosih snowy ridge,
14 and its altitude was 1° 30*, and by the cross routes from Peshour »nd Attodc
15 4» it^ wfaich ibtsaa a good angle, and i^prcea with the bearings it was. one
16 hundred nuhe' dtatriot The route from Attodk leads aloi|g the right beak
17 of the Indus, by Mullai, to llus point} it appears that the river is not ftedfr
18 ble at Mullai, that boats or rafts are used ; it is four short stages from tltis '
19 to the head of the Abba Seen. The first stage it is Ibrdable, which t n-
20 viuces me that M>me considerable stream must have joined from the left bauii
21 <m this march from MuUai, and I hare not the least doobt of its being tiie
22 Dkas brandit bntaij infbtiaaat oevot tnvveUed iqp the-left banl^ and eoold
23 not say; but from the riverfs decreasing ao nnich in tiuaatage^ Itiiink die
24 above branch must have joioed the AUba Seen a^Mttle above Mullai. I have
25 many routes tnki ; f rom the same man who gave these which I have afterwards
26 ;ii:)rrhed, and in the accounts and distances T tVnmd him perliectly correct }
27 and 1 have every reason to believe that his iiiiunuatioa on this point is cor-
28 rect slsoi. The Sheesha river rises on the north side of this hill^ nuis west,
29 and joins the Kama. The htUs and -vaUcya about this point produce geld
30 dnat ^ he did not tiBvd fiirther nortii.
31 ' TU£ KAMA iUV£B. «
32 I vonvD it impossible to obtain the true name of thia river, and I think
33 this cannot be its proper name^ ibr it is merdy cadied so from « village of
34 that vene at the pasnt it reoeives or joins die JoinA streams diPaagkegt,
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