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on the tops of inaccessible peaks ; it is as old as Shoh ; — N. to Cheoor 

 about ten miles N. E. of Shoh where it receives the Shoh ; N. W. to 

 Oolook, through the Durra Drewas pass, and N. W. to Aleek where 

 it meets a stream which runs along the pass from Thooroo at its 

 eastern extremity ; thence to Boorth, a Musalman shrine, below 

 which it receives the Khokhoom, rising E. N. E. in Kok, a fort in 

 Bolor mountains N. to Nath, where it spreads into a lake called 

 Boom Kull by Akaas, and Disrik Kull by Mahomedans. The river 

 here forms three channels — the most northerly pass Boom Baimeer, 

 winding round to W. to Esurk, receives a small stream of that 

 name from N. rising at Nashh, and receiving after heavy rains the 

 overflow of the Kara Kul lake, and running through the pass of 

 Eoouk to Esurk ; thence ~W. and S. W. by Zath and Khybut 

 where it receives the Zath from N. 9 rising in the Akaa range two 

 stages from the lake Biaz Kul. Thence the Bolor runs S. or S. S. W. 

 clearing the great range at fort Shameek, and thence S. W. to 

 Wackund, a large Usbec fort on W. bank ; thence to Peeraz, where 

 it is joined by the Boon from the E. rising at Hazur in Shoolee 

 range two days' march E. of Walfo ; thence S. "W. two stages to 

 Akanoon, where it is joined by the Thooz, which rises a stage west of 

 the Grhar lake at a marsh called Seosoo ; thence it runs "N. W. 

 through the great Shoolee range S. W. of Shoh W. to Preakgau, to 

 Kheal or Keelak, W. by Irsh to xikanoon where it meets the 

 Bolor : thence the Bolor runs S. W. to Asoo, Targa Oop, where it 

 meets the Soorkhab, and thence they flow together to S. W. by 

 Chuktee and Khoojawur, where they fall into the Ab-i-Ma or rather 

 being there joined by the Boodookshan take the name of Abi Ma or 

 Amoo. 



13, 14. The Soorkhab has two main branches rising N. E. of the 

 Nonaut Kau peak ; runs thence by Malpoort, where it meets the Ab- 

 koor from lake Khiangkul j thence S. and W. to Shin war, where it 

 meets the Oosh from E. from lake Kara Kul ; thence S. by Khara 

 Tagoon, S. W. to Auspek, where it meets the Numa rising at Taux 

 to N. W\ ; thence S. by Nahamoot, Boolgwan, Targhan and Ooppa, 

 where it meets the Bolor river. 



15, 16, 17. The Kaffir Noshan runs a day's journey to the S. of 

 the pass of Dostara under the peak of Nonaut Kaw. The Hoon 



