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Valley of PesTiawur. Valley of Dhukka 



or Lalpore. 

 Superficial oblique section (not drawn in proportion) of Peshawur valley, of the Kybur range, and 

 valley of Dhukka, to shew that glacis slopes of boulders and shingle exist in the Afredi, as well as 

 the Kybur side of the valley, and a^ well on the West as on the East side of the Khybur range. 



The Kojuck pass is much less supplied ; there is a good spring near 

 the head of the ravine up which the road runs, and there is also some 

 water at Chummun, on the north face of the range, 3,000 feet below its 

 crest. But between Chummun and Kelah Abdoolla, no good water is 

 procurable, and even at the last mentioned place the supplies obtained 

 were brackish ; the same comparative scarcity occurs in the road to 

 Bamean, above Sir-i-Chusma, and it is only when one arrives within the 

 drainage of the Helmund, that most of the ravines present small 

 supplies of water in the Khybur pass. There is no water until 

 Sundyck-hara is reached ; the bed of the ravine by which the army 

 descended from Lol-Ghurree Beg, was found to be dry to within 

 one mile of Ali Mussid, at a place called Sir-i-Chusma, where there 

 are copious supplies from a sort of cavernous limestone. In- 

 deed, this rock seems to be the principal source of the peren- 

 nial waters of the country in those parts beyond the influence of 

 the melting of the perpetual snows. It is the source of the sup- 

 ply at Sir-i-Bolan ; • at Mookloor, or the head of the Turnuk ; at 

 Sir-i-Chusmah or the head of the Cabul rivers; and the place 

 of the same name I just mentioned as occurring in the Khybur Pass. I, 

 whose journeys had been confined to the North-eastern portions of 

 British India, was particularly struck with the small number of natural 



