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at war with those of Kabul, a city of Tokharestan, and were at times 

 under the king of this Kabul. Hence these latter circumstances are 

 those of the present Kundahar of Afghanistan, of which at that period 

 the inhabitants were Torks, the produce hardly any rice, beef consumed, 

 while such a thing as a wheel carriage was never heard of in this moun- 

 tainous country. In fact, a wretched mixture has been made of two 

 descriptions obtained from other authors ; one of Kundhar, a city of 

 Baroach, in Guzerat, of which country, the capital, Anhulpoor, was subse- 

 quently called Nehrwalah, according to the Ayeen Ukbaree and of which 

 as near the sea coast, the accounts must have been known to the Arabs, 

 and of the description of Kundahar near Kabul of Afghanistan. Thus 

 having disposed of both these places in the 8th section of the second 

 climate, Edresee finds himself at a loss when he reaches the correct posi- 

 tion of the second in the third climate, so blinks the question, and men- 

 tions a capital or a city of Arachotia ; From Guznee he is forced by 

 propinquity to enter again upon the subject of Kabul, which is done in 

 a hesitating mode ; though the circumstances of the coronation again 

 mentioned, prove this town, now introduced in the 3rd, to be identical 

 with that already mentioned in the 2nd climate. This is the great error 

 of all compilations not distinguishing between places under the same 

 name. It is also a very curious fact that in this quotation by Edresee we 

 find the inhabitants of Kabul are mentioned as Jews, and this too by an 

 Arabian author, who would be versed in the genealogies of his country. 

 If we proceed to Aboolfeda we trace the same error of compilation. 

 Rukhuj is given as a district of Segestan, of which a town was Punj- 

 waee, on the authority of Ebne Huokul ; — and on the authority of the 

 Kanoon, it is attributed to Lat. 32° 50' ; Long. 93°, in the third 

 climate ; while in the table of places in Hind, of which all, the rest are 

 called of the latitudes of the twenties, and in the second climate, we 

 find a place designated Weehund, a town of Kundahar, with Lat. 33° ; 

 Long. 94° 50 ; , and the third climate, on the borders of the desert of 

 Scinde on the authority of Kanoon ; almost identical with the above 

 fixings of Rukhuj by the same author. Ebne Saeed considered it one 

 of the seventeen Alexandrias built by the Macedonian conqueror ; 

 The error of Edresee in regard of Nuhrwaluh just mentioned, is 

 also brought forward. I have no doubt but that Weehund, «*i«Jj is a 

 clerical mistake for Punjwaee LgljSity, a town which now exists some 12 

 miles west of the old city of Kundahar. 



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