1 LAL—LAR. 19
2 LALLOO, in Sinde, a village on the road from Bukkur to Ms. Survey Map.
3 Hyderabad, sixty miles south of the former town. Lut. 26°52’,
4 long. 68° 46’. "
5 LALPOOR.—A town on the north or left bank of the Kabool E.1.c. as. Map ;
6 river, at the eastern extremity of the plain of Jelalabad. Here, the aia ts ae
7 Caroppa route crosses by a ferry to the main road from the Khyber paar] ha ba
8 Pass to Jelalabad. The river at this point is sometimes fordable, Ther. Obs. in
9 and in April, 1842, was actually forded by a detachment of the 4% / ares ia
10 British army, sent to expel the Afghan chief of the town and dis- a gas ged
11 trict. The elevation above the sea is 1,404 feet. Lat. 34° 17’, War seat Ne
12 long. 71° 4’.
13 LANDEE KHANA,! the most difficult part of Khyber Pass, ! £.1.c. ats. Map;
14 lying about twenty-three miles from Kadam, the eastern entrance, 1p joe ae se.
15 and seven from the western entrance.* The pass here descends i, P..78, Grif
16 very steeply to the west, and is both narrow and rugged, so as to Meas, in Afg. ;
17 be with difficulty practicable for wheel-carriages. It is In one place a _
18 a mere gallery, twelve feet wide, with the lofty rock rising like a
19 wall on the north side, and a deep precipice on the south.? In April, Farrar has
20 1842, the British army, under General Pollock, when forcing the"
21 Khyber Pass, encamped near this spot. The elevation above ® Mil. Op. in afg.
22 the sea is 2,488 feet. Landee Khana is in lat. 34° 10’, long. ae
23 71° 18’.
24 LARAM MOUNTAINS, in Northern Afghanistan, a range tee ai
25 dividing the valley of Suwat from that of Panjkora. Very little Alexander's Ex-
26 is known respecting it, except that it extends about sixty miles oeanat of
27 = a ee from north-east to south-west. Lat. 35° 20’, Go eo ;
28 ong. .
29 LARGEBUR KAHREEZ, in Western Afghanistan, a village pie Ma. Doc. ;
30 on the route from Kandahar to Herat, and two hundred miles hae, ea *
31 ‘north-west of the former place. It liesein a valley, bounded on
32 both sides by very lofty mountains, estimated to have an altitude
33 of ten thousand feet above the level of the sea. There is an
34 abundant supply of good water from a Kahreez, or- subter-
35 raneous aqueduct, and some cultivation is observable in the
36 neighbourhood. Lat. 32° 32’, long. 62° 54’.
37 LARGEE, in Afghanistan, a dreary valley north of the Elph. Acc. of
38 Derajat, and separated from the Indus by a prolongation of the nee
39 * Some consider this celebrated defile to terminate about:a mile and a
40 half westward of Landee Khana, whilst others extend it nearly to Duka,
41 about seven miles farther in that direction.
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