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7. Sou tou li se na (Osrouchna) touche a To- *i& «>^J 

 rient au fleuve Ye, qui sort des monts Tsoung 



Ling et coule au nord-ouest. Au nord-ouest on 

 entre dans le grand desert de Sable. 



Osrooshunuh is a large district lying between Sumurkund and 

 Khokan ; Zeezuk of the maps is one of its chief towns. We find it men- 

 tioned in Edrisi, Vol. ii. p. 205-6. It is also entered in the Geogra- 

 phical lists of the Ayeen Akbaree, and Sadek Esfuhanee ; but with the 

 errors usual to all Latitudes and Longitudes written in the Abjud 

 numeration. We may remark, the usual elision of the initial vowel, 

 with the substitution of the Chinese l for Arabic r. The Sehoon or 

 Jaxartes is known to the Chinese as the Ye. 



The Tsoung Ling or blue mountains, constitute the chain, marked 

 in our maps as the Pameer, Boloor and Kara Korum ranges ; of which 

 the Himalaya or Snow mountains are considered as branches. 



Apres 500 li on vient a 



8. So mo kian, ou Khany kiu, ou Khany, &\*j+»» 

 (Samarkand). 



Sumurkund is the well known capital ; we may note the absorption 

 of the r. 



9. Mi mo ho (Meimorg). £j*Jls^* 

 Mimoho, is a city known as Maemorgh, placed by Edrisi, Vol. i. 



p. 485, at one day's march from Nesuf or Nukhshub, lying to the 

 east of Kesh or Shuhre Subz. 

 De la au nord 



10. Kie'i pou tan na, ou Tsao. &jj~* &*i^} $ 

 Kieu Poutanna, or Tsao. In Edrisi, Vol. i. p. 480, we find 



uk^y, t wo journies from Termiz ; a large town with a smaller one 

 depending on it, called &jy*» Soorun. Now, here I note a particular 

 point which appears to run through the whole of these transformations ; 

 either vthe sound of w has fallen on the Chinese ears as f, and hence 

 been transmuted into p — or in reading from an Arabic or Persian copy 

 in a hurried Shnkustuh handwriting the tail, of the J ivao, has been 

 turned up, and joining with the I alef has taken the form of f, <J and 

 been so read and accepted by the Chinese translator as \» fa ; he has 



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