1 PUG—PUL. lll
2 the country near the town of Kabool and the delightful region of
3 the Koh Daman, which is watered by numerous streams flowing
4 from it. Though close to the location of British enginéers for a
5 considerable length of time, the elevation of its highest part has
6 not been correctly ascertained, but it cannot be less than about
7 10,000 feet, and probably far exceeds that amount, as Baber,
8 whose statements are usually very accurate, mentions that it is
9 always covered with snow. By some it has been estimated as
10 high as 13,000. These mountains are of primary formation.
11 They are bleak, barren, and destitute of vegetation. From this
12 destitution, and the uniformity of their appearance, they add little
13 to the beauty of the scenery. Lat. 34° 40’, long. 68° 40’.
14 PUGMAN, or PEMGHAN,! in Afghanistan, a small town ' ELC. Ms. Doo.
15 and fort in the Koh Daman, and thirteen miles west of Kabool.
16 It is situate on a small feeder of the Kabool river. and at the
17 eastern base of the snowy mountains of Pemghan. Baber, in Memoirs, 147,
18 reference to Istalif and some other places in the vicinity, ob-
19 serves, that though not to be compared to them “in respect to
20 grapes and fruits,” it is beyond all comparison superior to them
21 in point of climate. Lat. 34° 32’, long. 68° 51’.
22 PUKATANGEE, in Afghanistan, a village situate on the river E.1.C. Ms. Doo,
23 Kooner, fifteen miles north-east of Jelalabad. Lat. 34° 27’,
24 long. 70° 40’.
25 PUKLI,! in the north of the Punjab, a small tract east of the ' Burnes, Pol.
26 Indus. It is very fertile, and yields the Sikh government about sine : ‘Wilson,
27 alac of rupees annually. Runjeet Singh obtained possession ik reo
28 of it about twenty years ago, by expelling the Mahometan bery, u. 169,
29 chief, Poyndu Khan, who took refuge in the island of Chut-
30 toorbye, in the Indus, where he has maintained his independence.
31 It is generally supposed to be the Peuceolatis? of Arrian, but oe on
32 erroneously, as that (Lib. iv. 22) was on the west side of the Beng. 1835, p. sos,
33 river, and Pukli,5 is on the east. Lat. 34° 15’—34° 30’, long. 72° jedinces On the
34 50'—73° 15’. ara
35 PULALUK, in Afghanistan,! a town on the route from 1 sour. As. Soo.
36 Nooshky to Furrah, and a hundred and fifty miles north-west of omen
37 the former place. It is situate on the left or southern bank of the sketch of the
38 Helmund, which, when seen at this place by Christie,? at the end Balas Wek
39 of March, was “ four hundred yards wide, very deep, and with un. oe
40 commonly fine water.” The current of the river here appears iit
41 to have excavated a valley, which extends about half a mile from