JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. V.— 1853. 



Notes on the Sources of the Abi Ma, or Amoo or Oxus, extracted 

 from the Journal of Mr. E. Gardiner. — By M. P. Edgworth, 

 Esq. C. S. 



It has nineteen principal branches above Oomshurk, which will 

 be enumerated from the S. to E. and so to N. Oomshurk is an 

 independent fort on S. bank of the river, one day W. of Kulef, a fort on 

 N. bank, four days W. of Thermaz, which is four days N. of Balkh, and 

 1-| S. of some extensive ruins of an old city named Thoor, said to be the 

 largest in Turkistan : — burnt clay idols, walls eighteen yards thick, of 

 polished stones without cement. It is at the S. entrance of a pass in 

 the Thoor hills which run E. to W. or N. W. to S. E. from Shoo- 

 brisubz by Mapak mountains and Koh-i-pak, Shamror and AUghoor, 

 the fort of Karbana to Ealungir, and through the desert of Woormoor ; 

 wind S. to Thalukhar and S. to Khan Durra, and then E. along river 

 Bhoongee to the Esh and Geth districts, where they join the Hindoo 

 Koosh. 



1. The Daha kash (or Akroo) rises at Dehan, a small fort at 

 base of Grhoor mountains 1^ day to Nilung ; thence N. E. to Khan- 

 dak, a large but ruinous fort, where it is met by the Zuz, which rises 

 at Shah kool one day W. of Dehan (which is one day from the first 

 fort met on emerging from the Khilzye country, and from the moun- 

 tain called Shah Shoorwa by Khilzyes and Nak by Therbas, from whose 

 snows the Moorghab or Dorub rises) ; thence the united streams 

 run N. N. E. to Ghoor— N. E. to fort Janbuk four days, N. E. 2£ 

 days to fort Khasbin, two days N. E. to Soorbhwa ; whence it in heavy 



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