572 Notes on the Geography of Western Afghanistan. [June, 



In the hope of arriving at some facts, in the matter of the recorded 

 latitudes and longitudes. I tabulated all I could collect of two such 

 celebrated places as Herat and Guznee. The Red book MSS. is so 

 carefully written by the hand of some man versed in the science of 

 figures, that I consider the readings to be correct, all the others being 

 from printed works are doubtful. 



Herat. 



Latitude. 



Ayeen Akbaree, . . 34 30 



Sadek Esfuhanee, 34 30 



Utwal, 35 



EbneSueed, 35 30 



Red book, a MS. 34 



Major Sanders, .. 34 21' 27 



Kundahar. 



Ayeen Akbaree, . . 33 



Sadek Esfuhanee, 33 



Kanoon, 33 



Red book, 33 



Major Anderson, . . 31 



Guznee. 



Ayeen Ukbaree, . . 33 



Sadek, 33 



Utwal and Kanoon, 33 



Red book, 33 



Engineers of the 



army, 33 33 ; 54 



Kabul. 



Ayeen Akbaree, . . 34 



Sadek, 34 



Utwal, 34 



Kanoon, 33 



Engineers of the 



army, 34 30 







30 



20 



40 



36' 10 



26 

 30 

 35 

 30 



30 



30 

 30 

 45 



18 



Longitude. 



94 

 94 



3o} 94 ° 25 ' 



85 



301 



87 



30 }86 55 7° 30' 



87 



45j 



62 



07 



101 

 100 



2}W} 101 02 



93 

 92 



* SSL}" 50 - 812 



65 



53 



104 

 102 



50 } 103 35 



94 

 94 



25 j 94 22 9° 13' 



68 



15 Wyld'sMap. 



104 

 104 



08 } 104 24 



94 

 94 



2q| 94 30 9 54 



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Wyld's Map. 



The above table I believe to contain the quantities intended by the 

 respective authorities whence extracted. Now Herat and Guznee have 

 both been emporiums of science and astronomy and astrology, — the 

 former under Arab, Tork and Mogul dynasties, — the latter under the 

 Guzneevide race of Muhmood ; and at its capital must have been cal- 

 culated the Kanoon- e-Masoode of Aboo Rehan. Hence, as far as their 

 rules of science and art would carry, we may conclude the position of 

 these two places to be exactly fixed. The latitude of Herat differs 



* Or, the capital of a chief of these parts, Teghe, who flourished in the days of 

 Subuktugeen. 



