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7. The river called Bhoongee rises at Ooslot, a Maur fort ST. of 

 the great range and five days W. of Chitool ; thence W. through the 

 Maur country to Nouvahi Kaffir, where are three gigantic idols in 

 caves, one said to be twenty-one times the size of nature. Thence 

 by Dur or Durra Ooth, where there is a remarkable vortex and sub- 

 sidence in the river Ooth ; what is not swallowed up, joins the 

 Bhohog ; thence to Ooslut by the Usbec fort of Kran ; thence 

 Khoonroom, (vide swpra) having received the Esh N. W. to Ispo 

 through mountains and uninhabited tracts to the pass of Durra Ishol 

 N. W. to the brine-springs of Zee, N. to Durdan, Shah Donoz, 

 where it falls into the Zohak, one day W. of Washi and Thaligam. 



8. The Shahageth or Thai rises towards S. E. in the peaks of 

 Maur-i-Moo ; its two branches issue from the Durra Toork and 

 Durra Faharang, and unite at Thang-i-Krai, near which are said to 

 be lead and iron mines ; these are now neglected and are four days 

 "W. of Boodookshun. Thence it runs N. W. to Shahgeth, a famous 

 shrine of Kahika ; IN". W. to Zun-i-buk and Poorth Kra, where the 

 Zain joins from S., rising also W. of Mahar-i-Moo ; thence W. by 

 fort of Tak to Hoon and Thalee Khan, and meets the Bhohog at 

 Shah Oomoz, which is a short day N. E. of the shrine of Joh, formerly 

 a Kaffir place of worship ; thence N. W. to "Wahi and Khanabad 

 where the river is generally called Zohak ; thence to Pithoor and 

 Koondooz, where it receives the Khooloom (v. s.), whence it takes 

 the name of Ak or Akserai ; N. W. to Goomsur and Akserai ; N. "W. 

 to Pathoor, Thaloom and Peer Shah Haj where it meets the Amoo. 



9. The Gruldarsh or G-oolsind runs in the Pak mountains one day 

 S. E. of Thrain-koh and Moongam ; thence N. W. to Kas Abi, Eoob- 

 nea (four stages from Budukhshan) to Koouk, Koh-e-thog N. W. 

 to Goolsin ; thence to Zurbab, where it falls into the Zoon. This 

 river is famous for the rubies found in its bed and neighbourhood. 



10. The Zoon rises at Taioork, a place famous for jewels, one day 

 N. ofMoongham in the Pak mountain, three days S. ofBoodookhshan ; 

 N. W. to Nomah or No, the ruins of an ancient massive building 

 one hundred yards square, and one hundred high, the first twenty 

 yards built up with well polished blocks of stone, about two yards 

 square. It is not quite square, the North side having an angle in it 

 {\ so — the circumference is four hundred and twenty yards, and 



