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2 as the road is better, the ascent easier and more regular,
3 water abundant, and some supplies obtainable. The guns
4 brought through the pass by the British were light field.
5 Pieces of the horse artillery. Masson,? who appears to have Mens Afg, Panj.
6 carefully explored the pass, gives its character in the following
7 words :—‘*In a military point of view, the route, presenting a
8 succession of open spaces connected by narrow passages or de-
9 files, is very defensible, at the same time affording convenient
10 spots for encampment, abundance of excellent water, fuel, and
11 more or less of forage. It is level throughout the road, either
12 tracing the bed of the stream or leading near to its left bank.”
13 MOOLA GOORI, in Afghanistan, a village situate on the B.1.¢. Ms. Doo.
14 right bank of the Lundye river, twenty miles south of its con-
15 fluence with the river Surat. Lat. 34°31’, long. 71°38’.
16 MOOLAKADEE, in Afghanistan, a village on the route from B.I.C. Bs. Doc.
17 Ghuznee to Kandahar, and a hundred miles south-west of the
18 former city. Lat. 32° 33’, long. 67° 15’.
19 MOOLA KHAN, in Afghanistan, a village on the route from E.I.C. Ms. Doc.
20 Kandahar to Ghuznee, and ninety miles south-west of the latter
21 town. Lat. 32° 46’, long. 67° 28’.
22 MOOLA KURME, in Afghanistan, a village situate on the B.C. Ms. Doc.
23 route from Ghuznee to Shawl, and sixty miles south of Lake
24 Ab-istada. Lat. 31°49’, long. 67° 21’.
25 MOOLANA, in Beloochistan, a village of Cutch Gundava, E.1.C. Ms. Doc.
26 situate on the road from Gundava to Shikarpoor, twenty-five miles
27 east of the former town. Lat, 28° 27’, long. 67° 55’.
28 MOOLANOH, in Sinde, a village in the Great Desert, ex- Walker's Map of
29 tending between that state and Rajwara. Lat. 26° 26’, long. ©”
30 70° 9’,
31 MOOLEANEE RIVER.—See Dusrqe.
32 MOOLTAN! in the Punjab, a great and ancient city, which, ! Leech, Rep. on
33 since the pre-eminence of the Sikh power, takes an important grammer 9p.
34 part in the commercial and monetary transactions of Western
35 India, outstripping Shikarpoor, and being inferior in this respect
36 only to Amritsir. It is situate three miles east of the Chenaub,? Prarie nee
37 the inundations of which reach it. Elphinstone, who saw this 321.
38 city in 1809, before it had been stormed by the Sikhs, describes
39 it as ‘ surrounded with a fine wall between forty and fifty fect
40 high.” This is now dilapidated, but the citadel continues a
41 place of strength, being more regular in construction than pro-