1 Hough, Narr, Exp.
2 in Afg. 36.
3 Moorer. Punj.
4 Bokh. 1.171;
5 Vigne, Kashmir,
6 i, 99.
7 App. to Elph. 640.
8 254 SUL.
9 tains about Hurrund and Kahun, and to lat. 29°, attaining their
10 greatest height in lat. 31° 35’, where the Takht-i-Suliman, or
11 «* Suliman’s Seat,”’ called also Khaisa Ghar,* is 11,000 feet above
12 the sea. This summit does not enter within the limit of per-
13 petual congelation, being devoid of snow during the height of
14 summer. Of its geological structure scarcely any thing is known.
15 Vigne, almost the only European who has visited this range, only
16 states that “it consists of recent formations, principally sandstone
17 and secondary limestone, abounding in ammonites and other
18 marine exuvie, the strata being much shattered and contorted,
19 and often overlaid by shingle.” The eastern declivity dips rather
20 steeply to the valley of the Indus, giving rise to numerous water-
21 courses, which fertilize the Derajat, and are expended by absorp-
22 tion or irrigation. The western declivity is much more gradual
23 to the desert table-land vf Sewestan. It is remarkable that no
24 stream rising in this range is known to reach the sea in any
25 direction, or by any channel, except the Kurum, which discharges
26 a scanty volume of water into the Indus, above Kala Bagh. The
27 greatest dimension of the range is from north to south, and is a
28 little more than three hundred miles. The Suliman range is
29 generally considered the peculiar seat of the aboriginal Afghans.
30 Nowhere is vegetation more vigorous and varied. The sides of
31 the mountain nearly to the summit are clothed with dense and
32 lofty forests, and the valleys overgrown with a great variety of
33 indigenous trees, shrubs, and flowers.
34 SULLEEANEE, in the Punjab, a small town of the Doab of
35 Barie, on the route from Surrukpore to Ferozpoor, and about
36 half-way between the Ravee and Ghara. Lat. 31° 10’, long.
37 74° 8,
38 SULTANPOOR,; or KULU, in the north-east of the Punjab,
39 and on the southern slope of the Himalaya, is the capital of the raj,
40 or small state, of Kulu. Itis situate on a triangular tongue of land
41 between the river Beas and a feeder flowing into it on the right side.
42 The southern, or lower part, which is next the river, contains
43 * Macartney states the greatest elevation of the range in the same part, as
44 ascertained by trigonometrical measurement, at 12,831 feet above the sea.
45 Walker, in his elaborate and valuable map of ‘ the countries between the Sut-
46 luj and Oxus,’’ notes the elevation as 12,000; probably thinking it least ob-
47 jectionable to state a mean between two authorities, each so eminent, yet in
48 this instance so widely differing.