392 Conjectures on the march of Alexander : [July, 



of Lagman, where it receives the waters of the Alumkhar, which flow 

 downwards from that territory. We follow it from thence into the 

 valley of Jeldldbad, where it is enlarged hy its junction with the 

 Surkh-db, which rises in Peivar ; and then again it receives the Khondr, 

 which flows through Kaf&istdn. In leaving this deep valley it passes 

 anew through the mountains of Dekha, and empties itself at Micheni 

 in the province of Peshdivar ; and when passing a short distance 

 from Ashnagar, it receives below that town the Jind, which flows 

 from the country of Baajor, then passes by Nouchareh, Akhora and 

 Jengir, and from thence finally empties itself into the Indus ; and 

 here we lose it about half a league below the fortress of Attok*. From 

 Cdbul to Jeldldbad it is known by the name of the river Cdbul, in the 

 Moumends by that of Khameh, at Pishdwar they give it the name of 

 Nagouman, and below that it is called Landeh, by the Kattuks and 

 Yusufzies. 



From its source to Ashnagar it abounds in rapids, which make it quite 

 unnavigable in the rainy season, and more particularly so during the 

 heavy falls of snow, which swell it out to a prodigious breadth. I 

 have above concluded that Alexander took the route to Lagman, 

 after having ordered his generals to go to Pencelaotis. 



The Aspii and the Thyraei that he attacked, appear to me to be the 

 Buzbins and the Touris, who inhabit the mountainous part of the 

 country which separates the valleys of Lagman and of Jeldldbad from 

 the territory of Cdbul. As to the town of Arigseum, which was found 

 beyond these mountains, it may be Alichung, a very ancient town 

 situated in the valley of Lagman. That of Tigueri, which is here to 

 be observed near the rivers of Meitarlam, is also of a very ancient 

 date. The two rivers of Choe and of Evaspla, that he must have 

 crossed in order to arrive, must in all probability be the Penj-shir 

 and Alumkhar. 



The valley of Lagman, as also that of Jeldldbad, were formerly in- 

 habited by an idolatrous people, who were driven after the first con- 

 quests of the Mahomedans beyond the chain of Hinda-kou, the Emodus 

 of the aneients. They are now known under the names Sidposh or 

 Kaferis, and the country that they inhabit is just below that of Ka- 

 feristdn. 



* The latter part of its course may be traced on a map, which we have been 

 permitted to copy from M. Court's original survey on its way to the Asiatic 

 Society of Paris, and which, with a few extracts from his geographical notes on 

 the country, will appear in our next number. — Ed. 



