1 MOO. 57
2 MOOKR, in Afghanistan, a village situate on the circuitous p.1.¢, Ms. Doc.
3 route from Giriskh to Bamian. Lat. 32° 13’, long. 65° 33’.
4 MOOKUR.—See Muxor. ,
5 MOOLA, a river of Beloochistan, rises a few miles south of Leech, on Sind.
6 Kelat, and flows south-east a distance of about eighty miles ; it male a
7 then turns north-east, and subsequently east, and after a course
8 of about a hundred and fifty miles, is ultimately absorbed by the
9 parched soil of the Rinn, Pat, or desert of Shikarpoor, in lat. 28°,
10 long. 68°. The Moola or Gundava Pass winds along its course.
11 MOOLA .or GUNDAVA PASS, in Beloochistan, generally 1 £.1.0. Ms. Doc.
12 follows the course of the Moola river, and conducts, by a cir-
13 cuitous route, from the elevated region of Kelat to the plain of
14 Cutch Gundava. It commences near the source of ,the Moola,
15 close to Angeera, in lat. 28° 10’, long. 66° 12’, and at an elevation
16 of 5,250 feet; for about fifty miles it proceeds in a direction
17 generally south-easterly, along the bottom of the valley, or rather
18 through a succession of deep and in general rocky gorges, down
19 which the stream flows, thus cross-cutting the eastern brow
20 of the Hala mountains, At Nurd, in lat. 27° 52’, long. 66°
21 57’, and having an elevation of 2,850 feet, the valley, and
22 the stream flowing through it, takes an abrupt turn to the
23 north-east, and continues to hold that direction, for about
24 fifty miles, to its termination near Kotree, in Cutch Gundava,
25 at an elevation of 600 feet above the sea, and in lat. 28° 24’,
26 long. 67° 27’. As the route generally follows the course of -
27 the stream to within a short distance of the north-eastern or
28 lower extremity of the pass, there is always abundance of good
29 water. The descent being four thousand six hundred and fifty
30 feet in about a hundred miles, the average fall is forty-six feet in
31 a mile. At Paesht Khana, about forty miles below the upper
32 extremity of the pass, the river Moola receives a considerable
33 stream, flowing from the north. Through the valley along which
34 this stream flows, a route proceeds direct from Kelat to this part
35 of the Moola Pass, but is not practicable for artillery or carriages.
36 This direct route is called the Panduran Pass, from a village of
37 that name situate on it. In the close of 1839, the Anglo-
38 Indian detachment under the command of General Willshire,
39 after storming Kelat, marched to Sinde through the Moola
40 Pass, and a brief notice of the marches and halting-places on
41 the route will, perhaps, best shew its ‘character. To Bapow, a