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Ghorband and Panjshir, and which forms the northern boundary of the 

 site of Beghrdm, Through this space also leads the high road from 

 the Kohistdn to Nijrow, Taghow, Laghmdn, and Jeldlabdd. The dasht of 

 Beghrdm is comprised in an extensive district of the Kohistdn called 

 Khwojeh Keddri; to the north, the plain has an abrupt descent into the 

 cultivated lands and pastures of the Baltd Khele and Karindat Khdn 

 Khele families, which at the north-western point interpose between it 

 and the river for the extent of perhaps a mile, or until the river leaves 

 the base of a singular eminence called Abdullah Biirj, which from the 

 vast mounds on its summit was undoubtedly an appurtenance of the 

 ancient city. East of this eminence another small space of cultivated 

 lands, with two or three castles, called Kdrdhichi, interposes between a 

 curvature in the direction of the abrupt boundary of the dasht, and the 

 direct course of the river ; east of Kdrdhichi rises a low detached hill, 

 called Koh Butcher, which has an extent eastward of about a mile and 

 half, intruding for that distance between the level dasht and the river ; 

 at the eastern extremity of Koh Butcher is one of those remarkable 

 structures we call topes. Parallel to Koh Butcher, on the opposite side 

 of the river, are the castles and cultivated lands called Muhammad Rdkhi, 

 and beyond them a sterile sandy tract gradually ascending to a celebrat- 

 ed hill and Zedrat, named Khwojeh Raig Rawdn, and thence to the 

 superior hill range before mentioned ; east of Koh Butcher, the level plain 

 extends for about a mile, until the same character of abrupt termina- 

 tion sinks it into the low lands of Julghar, where we find numerous 

 castles, much cultivated land, and as the name Julghar implies, a large 

 extent of chaman or pasture. The lands of Julghar, to the east, from the 

 boundary of the dasht of Beghrdm, to the south, its boundary may be 

 considered the stream called the river of Koh Daman, which after 

 flowing along the eastern portion of Koh Daman, and receiving what 

 may be spared after the irrigation of the lands from the streams of 

 Shakr Darrah, Bey dak, Tugah, Istalif, &c. falls into the joint river of 

 Gharband and Panjshir at a point below Julghar. Beyond the river 

 of Koh Daman, a barren sandy soil ascends to the skirts to the Sidh Koh 

 and Koh Soft. Among the topographical features of the dasht of 

 Beghrdm may be noted three small black hills or eminences, detached from 

 each other, which in a line, and contiguous to each other, arise from the 

 surface of the soil a little north of the river of Koh Daman. To the 

 west of Beghrdm are the level lands of Mahighir ; at the north west angle 

 of the plain is the small village of Killah Boland, where reside about 

 seven Hindu traders, some of them men of large capitals ; and at the 

 south-west angle are three castles called Killah Yezbdshi, distant from 

 Killah Boland about four miles. From Killah Boland to Julghar a 



