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2 Amm,l THE USGHinOliUI BIVER. OBBi
3 ward and the latter to the noftlimd in a TOterly directMm near and joining
4 at Hureepoor, bdow the fort one match. The Ban Gunga separates into two '
5 bfandia near the fort, and a branch pairing on eadi ride of tibqr fimn an
6 iaiand and jwi inunediatety hdknrit*
7 THE RIVERS OF KHORAAAN.
8 THB Mmmm on RKLsmiD.
9 Tht<5 river is the greatest of the Khorasan rivers: it rises west ol" Cabul
10 ill the lull called Kohi Baba. Its course is south-west throug|i the Ua^ara
11 country, and passing to Hie aouthward, it cioflsea the gieat roada from
12 y«iiJA«r to Hirat at GteeriiTr, a distance of tiro hmdred and siz^ milea.
13 Hm whole dUstance to within two marches of this is through very high and
14 difficult hills. From this to where it falls into the lake of Seestan is one
15 hundred miles, total three hundred and sixty miles. In the hot season,
16 when the snow meiis, it is a very large river, and it it a common practice
17 with the people oi Greesbk to try to shoot anowB aciOBB or.riing atooes, but
18 it is not to be done. In the cold weather it « neaily faraiit decp^ e^ial to
19 tiM Kanuw riverat AlBoaa. Thsre are two hoala atthe.Gfeeahk Ohat, bet
20 it ia fordable for the greatest part of the year ; it receives oonaideraUe
21 itreania in its course. It is joined fourteen miles above Grceshk by a stream
22 ^hose roufse is eighty miles, wiiich rises to the south of the Huzara country
23 at Sealibund. It also receives the Urghundab five coss below Greesbk, and
24 part of the Turnuk, it is also joued by the Khaahrood at Kolmidieen
25 fiirtiier down.
26 THE UKOHUKDAB anTSE > ■
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28 in tiie Husam hiBs about eighty miles north-east by north of - Kai^
29 dahar, passes within five coss of the town to the north and west of it, and
30 joins the Hirmund five coss below Crree^hk on its left: bank, after a course of
31 one hundred and fifty miles. In tde ajld scasou this river is two ;ii:tl a half
32 or three feet deep and fiily yards broad, but in the hot weather, when the
33 snow melts in the hUia it is not ibidaUie Ibr daee attonth^ being eioearive^
34 tafidt sand at this season above one hundred and fifly yards broad.
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