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been published at all, having been prepared "for 

 political and military reference " for the use of the 

 Government of India. It is ' A Gazetteer of Kash- 

 mir and the adjacent districts of Kishtwar, Badrawar, 

 Jamu, Naoshera, Piinch, and the Valley of the Kishen 

 Ganga, by Captain Ellison Bates, Bengal Staff Corps.' 

 This volume was printed in 1873, and will be found 

 very useful to those who can get hold of it. The 

 principal places in the valley, and in the districts 

 mentioned above, are enumerated alphabetically and 

 described; and there are nearly 150 pages in which 

 routes are detailed in such a manner that the traveller 

 will know what he has to expect upon them. It has 

 also an introduction which contains much information 

 in regard to the country generally, but a great deal of 

 this has been taken from the older writers, and some 

 of it does not appear to have been verified. In this 

 respect Dr Elmslie's ' Kashmiri Vocabulary ' affords 

 more original information than Captain Bates's 

 'Gazetteer,' but the latter will be found a very 

 valuable work of reference. The third volume I 

 speak of is of a less learned description, and is ' The 

 Kashmir Handbook : a Guide for Visitors, Avith Map 

 and Routes. By John Ince, M.D., Bengal Medical 

 Service;' and was published at Calcutta in 1872. 

 This work is not free from errors, as notably in its 

 rendering of the Persian inscriptions on the Takht-i- 

 Siiliman, and it indiscriminately heaps together a 

 crood deal of information from various sources : it is 



