1 soo. 249
2 scarcely passable for cannon, and in general little else than the
3 bed of some mountain torrent. Lat. 30° 50’, long. 67° 20’.
4 SOORKHPOOR.—A village in the Punjab, situate in lat. Walkers Map
5 80° 34’, long. 73° 24’,
6 SOORKH ROOD,' or SOORKHAB* (Red River), in Afghan- ! E-.C. Me. Doe. ;
7 istan, a tributary of the Kabool river, falling into it from the south bal sl ey ee
8 at Darunta, about ten miles west of Jelalabad, and in lat. 34° Peer Ales
9 28’, long. 70° 22’. The Soorkh Rood rises on the northern slope Moorer. Pun}.
10 of the Sufeid Koh, or White Mountains, and receives numerous ams eye!
11 streams, so that, though neither deep nor broad, it is a very rapid Beng, 1045) 9118,
12 river, with a violent current. It was forded by a British party at can
13 Hissatuck in June, 1838. The water at that place was then Maes oe
14 stirrup-high, and the stream about two yards wide. Itis crossed, in Narr. Exp. in
15 lat. 34° 19’, long. 69° 56’, by the route from Kabool to Jelalabad, et:
16 by means of “ a bridge, built by Ali Mardan Khan in the reign
17 of Shah Jehan, A.D. 1606, but recently repaired by Akram Khan.
18 The bridge was one hundred and seventy yards long and eighteen
19 broad, with a single arch. It was flat at top, with a low parapet
20 on each side. The river, which comes from the south-west, about
21 twenty miles off, was flowing ina rocky bed with much rapidity,”2 ? Moorer. fi. 871.
22 During the Talpoor dynasty, it belonged to the Ameer of Khyer-
23 poor, but in 1843 was, with the surrounding district, transferred 3 3 ¢orresp. on
24 by the British Government to Mahomed Bouhawul, Khan of 5!nde, 602, 507.
25 Bhawlpoor. It derives its name from its water being tinged by
26 the red earth suspended in it.
27 SOORKOON.—See Soorxnow.
28 SOORMADANE, in Bhawlpoor, a village situate on the left Watkor’s Bap of
29 bank of the Ghara river. Lat. 29° 45’, long. 72° 20’. oblige
30 SOORMASING.—A village in the province of Jhalawan, Be- as, survey Map.
31 loochistan, and situate on the road from Kelet to Southern Beloo-
32 chistan, about thirty miles south-west of the above-mentioned
33 town. Lat. 28° 34’, long. 66° 13’.
34 * uw Surkh ‘ red,’ and ony rud “ river,” ot ab ‘‘ water.”? Ac-
35 cording toMac Gregor,! ‘ it is called the Red River from the colour of its 1479,
36 water ;”’ and of similar import is the statement of Burnes :?_ ‘* We continued ? Bokh. i. 126.
37 our march to Jugduluk, and passed the Soorkh Rood, or Red River, by a
38 bridge, with a variety of smaller streams, which pour the melted snow of the
39 Sufued Koh into that rivulet. The waters of all of them were reddish ; hence
40 the name.’’ Havelock,® on the contrary, makes mention of its ‘‘ crystal 3 Warin Afg. i.
41 waters,’? 179,