386 M. A. Stein —Topography of the Pir Panbsdl Ponte. [No. 4, 1895.] 
rahdari and have been frequently noticed in the accounts of European 
travellers since the early part of the present century. An interesting 
passage of Alberuni (transl. by Sacliau, I., 206) shows that in old times 
strict control was also exercised at such places over those who wished 
to enter the country. 
The historical data which we have endeavoured to elucidate in con¬ 
nection with this ancient mountain-route, can claim, perhaps, only a 
locally limited interest. Yet their detailed discussion here may have 
been of some use as showing that we can expect mutatis mutandis in 
the mountains of Ka^nrir that tenacity in clinging to local traditions 
and local names which characterizes the population of so many parts 
of Alpine Europe. 
