A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest: Including Sinde, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, the Punjab, and the Neighbouring States, Volume 1W.H. Allen, 1844 - 450 pagina's Compiled by the Authority of the Hon. Court of Directors of the East-India Company, and Cheifly from Documents in Their Possession: by Edward Thornton |
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A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest ..., Volume 1 Edward Thornton Volledige weergave - 1844 |
A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest ..., Volume 1 Edward Thornton Volledige weergave - 1844 |
A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North-West ..., Volume 1 Edward Thornton Volledige weergave - 1844 |
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Afghans Attock Bajour Bamian Belooch Beloochistan Beng Bhawlpoor Bokh Bolan Bolan Pass British Bukkur Burnes Caubul Chenaub confluence Conolly Cutch Gundava Derajat eastern elevation Elph Elphinstone feet fertile fifty miles former place Ghara Ghuznee Grif height Helmund Herat Himalaya Hindoo Koosh Hough Hugel hundred Huzareh Hyderabad Indus Jailum Jelalabad Jour Kabool Kabool river Kafiristan Kalat Kandahar Kashmir Kelat Khyber Khyber Pass Kurrachee Lahore lake Larkhana latter place Leech left bank Masson miles east miles north miles north-east miles south miles south-west miles west Moorcr Moorcroft mountains N.W. Frontier Narr north-west Oxus Panj Pass Persian Peshawur plain population Pottinger Punj Punjab range right bank road route from Kandahar Sehwan Seistan Shah Shawl Sikhs south-east stream summit thirty miles tract tribes twenty miles valley Vigne village in Afghanistan village in Sinde village situate Walker's Map Wood yards wide
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Pagina v - To note the various countries, provinces, or territorial divisions, and to describe the physical characteristics of each, together with their statistical, social, and political circumstances. To these are added minute descriptions of the principal...
Pagina xx - Esq., with Notes and a Geographical and Historical Introduction, together with a Map of the Countries between the Oxus and Jaxartes, and a Memoir regarding its construction. By CHARLES WADDINGTON, of the East India Company's Engineers.
Pagina xvii - SECOND MEMOIR ON THE ANCIENT COINS FOUND AT BEGHRAM, IN THE KOHISTAN OF KABUL.
Pagina 96 - Khelat, for the exaction of retribution from that Chieftain, and for the execution of such arrangements as would establish future security in that quarter...
Pagina 184 - The defences consist of a square of three hundred yards, protecting an octagonal fort, in the centre of which is a lofty mass of buildings commanding the surrounding country. The supply of water from the mountain-streams is liable to be cut off by the hostile Khyberees of the adjacent hills. In the hope of providing a remedy for this inconvenience, the Sikhs have sunk a well two hundred feet deep, but without reaching water. Lat. 33° 58', long. 71° 30'.
Pagina 283 - The rock of the same name itself with the rajah's stronghold on the east end of it, was a very conspicuous object. The stream from the valley of Shighur, which joins the Indus, as it washes its foot, was visible from the spot where I stood, but the latter river was hidden by the height of its left bank, whilst on the north, and wherever the eye could rove, arose with surpassing grandeur a vast assemblage of the enormous summits that compose the Tibetian Himalaya.
Pagina 282 - I, the first European who had ever beheld them (so I believe), gazed downwards from a height of six or seven thousand feet upon the sandy plains and green orchards of the valley of the Indus at Iskardo." " The rock of the same name itself with the rajah's stronghold on the east end of it, was a very conspicuous object. The stream from the valley of Shighur, which joins the Indus, as it washes its foot, was visible...
Pagina xvii - The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the thirteenth century ; being a description, by that early traveller, of remarkable places and things in the eastern parts of the world ; translated from the Italian, with notes. By Wm.
Pagina 350 - The iU93- first fall of snow restores the clearness of the air. Though snow lies to the average depth of two feet from the early part of December to the middle of April, the cold in general is a few degrees only below the freezing point. The Jailum is seldom completely frozen over, though ice invariably covers the surface of the lakes to a considerable distance from the banks. The snow begins to disappear in March. " The end of March and beginning of April are distinguished by the popular term of...
Pagina 350 - By the end of that month the trees are stripped of their leaves and the year's vegetation is killed off, a thick haze overspreads the whole valley, and the lakes and rivers send up clouds of vapour. Every movement of men or beasts raises great quantities of dust, and the haze becomes so great that even at mid-day, and under a cloudless sky, no object can be seen at a mile's distance. This murky state of the air extends for about 200 feet above the level of the valley ; and those who...