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2 Hindoo Koosh — and from the Indus in the east to the Tigris in the
3 west; and this great Empire, though afterwards much cur-
4 tailed, and brought down to the state of a small principality,
5 still in some manner existed until the time of Cyrus. However,
6 Kuss orKish is supposed to have rebuilt this fort, and the walls,
7 or their remnants, as they stood in the time of Sultan Mahomed,
8 are said to have been 10 musaatheir high (ten mens' height) and
9 15^ hat'h broad (7 j yards) at top, built of immense blocks of
10 stone cut and properly faced.
11 The Sultan's forces made many unsuccessful attempts to
12 reduce and subdue the neighbouring princes around, especially
13 those of Nire (supposed to be the present Logurut) Rajnah (the
14 present Rajgull) Lugh (or the present Lughman) and Oorch —
15 a large fortress, near the site of the present Cabul. The
16 chief of the last mentioned place was a Rajah Oorg or Urj (pro-
17 perly, perhaps, Urgin) who as well as most of the chiefs around
18 was a fireworshipper. However, after a long series of campaigns,
19 Sultan Mahomed succeeded in subduing the country as far
20 as Lughman and the places before mentioned, with the
21 exception of the strong hold held by Urj or Urgin, who ob-
22 stinately stood out and kept himself independent until about
23 the year of the Hejira 392, when Sultan Mahomed (it is
24 supposed at the instigation and invitation of some of Urgin's
25 relatives and friends who had betrayed him) was induced
26 to send one of his Generals, Abdul Ruheem, with a large
27 force to reduce that now last remaining fortress. The site
28 of the fort was on the summit of one of the hills, and near
29 where stands the present Balla Hissar. After some hard
30 fighting on both sides, Urgin and his followers were com-
31 pelled to shut themselves up in the fort, where after some days
32 they were so reduced as to be compelled at last to agree to all
33 Abdul Ruheem's terms. Among these, the first was that
34 the Rajah himself should embrace the Moslem faith and be-