JOURNAL 



OF 



THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. 49. — January, 1836. 



I. — Second Memoir on the Ancient Coins found at Beghrdm, in the 

 Kohistdn of Kabul. By Charles Masson. 



I had the pleasure last year to submit a Memoir on the coins dis- 

 covered at Beghrdm, and now beg to offer a second, containing the 

 results of my collection of the present year from the same place : the 

 observations which these coins suggest I shall preface by a few remarks, 

 tending to illustrate the locality of the spot where they are found, as 

 well as some other points connected with it. 



I shall also submit, in this Memoir, the results of discoveries in 

 other places, made during the year, so far as they refer to numismatolo- 

 gy ; in the hope to contribute to farther elucidation of the history of 

 the countries from which I write. 



The dasht or plain of Beghrdm bears N. 15 E. from the modern city 

 of Kabul, distant by computation eighteen ordinary kos ; and as the 

 line of road has few sinuosities or deflections, the direct distance may 

 probably be about twenty-five British miles. It is situated at the south- 

 east point of the level country of the Kohistdn, in an angle formed by 

 the approach of a lofty and extensive mountain range, radiating from the 

 superior line of the Caucasus on the one side, and by the inferior range 

 of Sidh Koh on the other. The former range separates the Kohistdn 

 from the populous valley of Nijrow, and the latter, commencing about 

 15 miles east of Kabul, gradually sinks into the plain of Beghrdm. East 

 of the Sidh Koh is a hilly, not mountainous, tract, called Koh Safi, 

 which intervenes between it and the extensive valleys of Taghow. 

 Through the open space extending from west to east, between these 

 two hill ranges, flows the river formed by the junction of the streams of 



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