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which drain the loftiest ranges on which snow is to be found through- 

 out the year. 



In most of the mountainous parts of India, I have seen almost every 

 ravine give exit to a water-course, but this is not the case in Affghan- 

 istan. In the Bolan pass water is plentiful enough, and at Sir-i- 

 Bolan, which the Affghans consider as the head of the pass, a beau- 

 tiful and copious spring gushes from the rocky southern side of the 

 gorge. But from this to Sinab, a distance of about 24 miles, and where 

 there are kahreejees, not a drop of water is procurable, unless rain 

 has very lately fallen. 



S^^tol^fthTJ surface of \the or/dinary form \of A ffghan valley. 



Boundary mountains 

 usually bare rock. 



Glacis slope of boulders 

 and shingle. 



Tillable soil, a strip on either 

 side of the line of drainage. 



Section 'of; the surface 

 west of' /Cabul city. 



of the V other form of val 

 V 



\ 



leysuchasthat^ to the immediate 



Rocky boundary Glacis slope of boulders Level tillable soil, 

 mountains. and shingle. 



