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side, is called the Palang Durwaz or Panther’s Portal, and may 
be the famed Caspian gates about the position of which antiqua- 
rians are so uncertain. Damavaud, 19,950 feet in height, is an 
extinct volcano. 
iS only eighty miles from the sea. It has been ascended by 
steamer for 1 50 miles. The banks of nearly all of these fine 
fivers are uninhabited, but it appears from the report of Mr. 
peopled only by tribes of Sundyaks‘ who are Dyaks with some 
admixture of Chinese. 
Bai nsdell has returned from a journey ot 11,000 miles or 
ore in Western Siberia and Turkestan. 
hill is separated from that of the Irawadi by a great range of 
s. The traveler and his companions were robbed of most of 
Property between Lhassaand Lob Nor; and at Saithang (lat. 
= ig northward to Saitu (lat. 40°, long. 92°), probably the 
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