1 NIL—NOB. 77
2 to be of Persian descent, with a few of a peculiar race called
3 Pashai, who are said to speak a dialect similar to that of the
4 natives of Kafiristan, and in some other respects to sesemble
5 that ancient and remarkable people. Though adjacent to the
6 usual seat of the Afghan government, the inhabitants of Nijrow
7 have, through their bravery, and the difficulty of their country,
8 preserved their independence. Lat. 35° 10’, long. 69° 25’.
9 NILAB,! in the -Punjab, a small town on the left or eastern ! Wood, Oxns,
10 bank of the Indus, a short distance below Attock, and close to '**
11 the confluence of the Hurroo river. The name signifies “blue
12 water,” and has been assigned to it from the deep blue colour of the
13 water of the Indus at this place. The great river here is narrow,
14 rapid, and a hundred and twenty feet deep. ‘There is a ferry at ? Memoir of a
15 which, according to Wood, Timur crossed on his invasion of og hge he
16 India; but Rennell? is of opinion that he crossed at or near ae Aoi,
17 Attock.* Lat. 33° 46’, long. 72° 17’. Ia Eph. 093.
18 NIL NAG, “blue lake.”—In Kashmir, a great spring or Moorcroft, Punj.
19 piece of water, which gives rise to a stream falling into the Benne:
20 Behut or Jailum, in the vicinity of Baramula, in lat. 33° 48’, long.
21 74° 32’, Like most other sources of rivers, it is regarded with
22 superstitious veneration by the Hindoos. It is situate on the
23 north-eastern declivity of the Pir Panjal, and twenty-five miles
24 south of Serinagur.
25 NINGANA, in Bhawlpoor, a village situate near the left Walkers Map of
26 bank of the Ghara river. Lat. 29° 38’, long. 72° 6’. _ ;
27 NISHOWRA, in the Punjab, a large village situate on E-LC. Ms. Doc.;
28 : Hough, Narr.
29 the route from Ramnugger to Lahore, and forty miles north- Exp. inafg. $56.
30 west of the latter town. The surrounding country is overgrown
31 with thick grassy jungle, interspersed with patches of cultivation.
32 Lat. 31° 59’, long. 73° 50’. :
33 NOBRA, or NUBRA.—A division of Ladakh, or Middle Moorer. Punj.
34 : : . . Rokh. 4. 262, 315;
35 Tibet. It is a singularly wild tract, of great elevation, on the Vigne, Kashmir,
36 ‘ ‘ li, 360, 964;
37 south side of the Karakorum mountains, or eastern part of Ralconer, on Cas
38 Hindoo Koosh, and is bounded on the north, the east, and the atin the
39 south sides by the Shy-Yok, or river of Nobra, which rising in As. sec. Beng.
40 1841, p. 617.
41 * Burnes ascribes to Rennell a statement that Timur crossed the Indus not Pers. Narr. 11.
42 at Attock, but at Dingote, about seventy miles lower down. But he does not
43 refer to the page, and the opinion of Rennell, as above quoted, is distinctly
44 given in page 85:—-*‘ The Indus he (Timur) crossed, I take it for granted, at
45 or very near the place where Attock now stands.”’