1 20 LAR—LAU.
2 Salt range of mountains. It is about forty miles in length and
3 eight or ten in breadth, arid, barren, and desert, being visited
4 merely because the great route from north to south, along the
5 western side Uf the Indus, passes through it. The middle part is
6 in lat. 32° 20’, long. 71° 15’.
7 Burnes’ Pers. LARKHANA, in Sinde, a town fourteen miles west of the
8 Narr. 44; Leech, Indus, situate on a great canal, which leaves the main stream of
9 Rep. on Sindian . 7 3
10 Army, 65; Ken- that river near Sukkur, and communicates with the Narra, or
11 bana lt be great western branch. The surrounding country, which is fer-
12 Bucs Ren cy tile, populous, and highly cultivated, is probably the finest tract
13 coon shi- in Sinde. The town is rudely fortified, and has a citadel at its
14 Wee western end, which, during the rule of the Talpoor dynasty, was
15 the head depét of the artillery of the Ameers of Hyderabad. Lar-
16 khana is one of the principal grain marts of Sinde, and has a good
17 bazaar, containing three hundred and seventy shops, well sup-
18 plied with wares. The principal manufactures are the weaving
19 of silk and cotton, which are of the yearly value of 6,000/.; and
20 the place derives some commercial advantages from being situate
21 on the great route from Southern Sinde to Cutch Gundava,
22 Beloochistan, and Kandahar, through the Bolan Pass. The popu-
23 lation, estimated at 10,000 or 12,000, bear a character of great
24 profligacy. Near the town, on the banks of the Narra, is a large
25 ruined fortress, called Maihota, built on a huge mound. Lar.
26 khana is in lat. 27° 30’, long. 68° 16’.
27 LARKHARA.—See LarkHana.
28 Jour. As. Soc. LASPISSOR MOUNTAINS, in Northern Afghanistan, a
29 ee pees. Yange subordinate to Hindoo Koosh, and south of it. They
30 cgiad O have been very slightly explored, but are represented to extend
31 the Indus, byM. about fifty miles, in a direction generally from east to west.
32 A. Court, Map. Tat, 36°, long. 70°.
33 ‘TouycAs; Boece LAUSH, in Afghanistan, in the province of Seistan, is an
34 eaiaie i ancient fort, belonging to a local chief of the Ishaukzye tribe of
35 Jour. of Travel in Afghans. It is, as the name vernacularly implies, built on a cliff.
36 ae The cliff is four hundred feet high ; the Furrah river flows at its
37 eastern base, and is undermining the weak and friable mass 80
38 rapidly, that in a few years it must fall with the superincumbent
39 buildings, - There are many caves excavated in the cliff, having
40 access and communication with each other by subterraneous
41 passages, and intended as places of refuge for the inhabitants in
42 cases of extreme danger. The people of the country consider