1 E.I.C. Ms. Doe. ;
2 Hough, Narr.
3 Exp. in Afg. 93.
4 E.LC. Ms. Doc.
5 E.1C. Ms. Doc.
6 1 FP, Von Hugel,
7 Kaschmir, i. 193 ;
8 ii, 166.
9 2 Kashmir, ii. 395.
10 52 MEL—MER.
11 Little or no rain had fallen this year, and yet the nullas always
12 afforded a large supply of water.” This road is passable both for
13 cavalry anc artillery, sufficient forage may be obtained for horses,
14 and, as on the more northern road, dates and cattle are pro-
15 curable, but no other supplies; 20 that it would be requisite to
16 have depdts of provisions at suitable intervals. It is, perhaps,
17 scarcely necessary to observe, that this was the route taken by
18 Alexander in his return from India.
19 MELEMANDA, in Afghanistan, a halting-place on the route
20 from Shawl to Kandahar, and forty miles south-west of the latter
21 city. Here are several villages situate on a small stream, a feeder
22 of the Doree, and containing many wells. The country to the
23 east is very rocky and uneven, that to the west rather level and
24 well cultivated. Lat. 31° 16’, long. 65° 58’.
25 MENEEKA, in Sinde, a village situate on the western route
26 from Larkhana to Sehwan, and forty miles north of the last-men-
27 tioned place. Lat. 26° 52’, long. 67° 51’.
28 MENOTEE, in Beloochistan, a village of Cutch Gundava, on
29 the route from Sukkur to Shahpoor, and eighteen miles south of
30 the latter town. Lat. 28° 30’, long. 68° 30’.
31 MER and SER,! in the north of the Punjab, two mountain
32 summits, which rise to great height and with sublime effect,
33 fifty or sixty miles east of the eastern boundary of Kashmir, In
34 their regular conical form they as closely resemble each other as
35 though they had been cast in the same mould, but they differ in
36 hue, one being completely white, the other as uniformly black.
37 They seem to be situate close together, and if this be the case,
38 they must be nearly of the same height. No explanation appears
39 to have been given of the singular fact that, being of the same
40 height and situate in the same latitude, one is covered with per-
41 petual snow, the other quite bare. Hiigel considers them iden-
42 tical with the Kantal mountain of the early maps of Kashmir;
43 but Vigne ? is of opinion that the Kantal is the lofty mountain
44 south of the Bultul Pass. They are probably, with the excep-
45 tion of the mountains in Rupshu, the highest summits between
46 the Sutlej and the Indus. Hiigel clearly viewed them at Vizi-
47 rabad, in the plain of the Punjab, overtopping the Panjals of
48 Kashmir, and many other intervening mountains, though the
49 distance is not less than a hundred and forty miles. Mer and
50 Ser may be considered situate about lat. 34°, long. 76°.