^ A JOURNEY TO LAICE 



lourncy from *&$&& and that Bokhara Was 1 fteen da p jour ifBm ¥S E 



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 owm ■; Lat-aH is ten or twelve days journey Irom G her tope, and the lame 



di funce : From 'tajfh'iAir^ "arid twenty-five from 'Amiritjir. Thus the road 



to the N. ' W. 6rMe*Mf'rJ?^ from 1$ Mf would ' {land thus: rrorri ,4?^ ■ 



mtfirX&'Latuk twenty-five days, YdrkunA thirty, Bokhara fifteen ; majL 



ing a total of ievcnty days . ; a much fhorter di {lance than that by Cabul, 



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—In this route there are two days jqurney, ?n which no water is to 



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be met with: and for "thirty days there is a tract without inhabitants : but 

 the road is fafe. 1 mud here remark, that the river, which goes from 

 Chertope to Latdk, does not proceed to Bokhara as before Hated ; .but 

 falls into the Attack, or more properly fpeaking, is the main ftreanii .of, 

 that river. Neither is it after, that C^m/rfurnilhes Latdk with grain, as 

 was at fir ft reported to me ; the latter country haying fyJScient lancj. 

 in cultivation for p rod ucing. barley anj4 other grains^ except wheat and 

 rice, which it obtains from Bafchar* I went this ....evening to the 

 Cajlimvlaris tent, taking with ^.rrie . two . fmajlr. bottles of ,eiTence of pep^ 

 permint and of volatile cau flic alkali. , .. H,e i-fc^^ed me with gr^at rt fpecf 3 

 fpoke in the higrieit terms of tl?c Regard ihown to me dical cha- 

 racters in the Weft, and of tfye pleafure. be.hagV.in qur meeting, ..which 



he now , regretted had not taken place .before. _ His name was 

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Ahmed Khan, Kaz albash^ about forty-eight ..years ... of age, and j of a ; 

 resectable appearance, fie. placed before me fome f^ne fugar-candy and 

 a P a .pcr ©£ faffrcwi.. Looking glafTes of large ilzes were, he, faid, much 

 in r.equeft in. Cajhmir. He was particularly defirous to have -a lancet 



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of, the fame make with on@ : , that 1^ : had given to the Garj) an. but in this 

 I .could not indulge, him,; X .drew; hira m --to- convcrfe about the 

 Ru^kns, but could learn, no .more .than w v hathas been.j ilated,,faye that 



a. few have before been in -Cafhrnir.. -He -brought^, with ...him (bawls; of 

 various kinds far fale ; and faid. that. his people,_;whQ'were; not come up, : ? 

 ; fead feme of great value in charge. No body ? he faid, could trade, at 



