G0 Mr. Bell’s Remarks on the Errors 
D’Anville obtained very little assistance from it in compiling his 
map of the Persian empire, which, with all the lights borrowed 
from it, is still a very meagre performance. Mr. Waddington, in his 
map prefixed to the Memoirs of the Emperor Baber, has not been 
able to throw much new light on the subject, having no additional 
materials but such as were supplied by Elphinston’s map of Cau- 
bul, and the marches of Baber. The latter, indeed, have enabled 
him to approximate the relative positions of the cities of Mawal- 
nahar to each other, and to correct a number of erroneous latitudes. 
But the longitudes of Bokhara and Samarcand, in respect of Green- 
wich, and on which all the rest depend, are not yet satisfactorily 
determined, only they are removed a little more to the H. than in 
former maps. My opinion is, that both these positions are still too 
far W. The extraordinary error in the position of Mesched in Kho- 
rasan, discovered by Mr. Fraser, by which it was removed not less 
than 2° 42’, or 155 British miles in respect of longitude, and a full 
degree of latitude from its true situation, being so much actually 
farther EK. and 8. than it was set down in former maps, greatly 
strengthens my suspicion, that the longitudes of Bokhara and Sa- 
marcand are too far W. and consequently that of Belk. Wadding- 
ton still retains the old errors of placing Tashkunt in nearly 65° E. 
leng. whilst the great Chinese map makes it 68° 54. Khoojund, 
consequently, will be in 70° E. long. instead of 66° 49’, as in Wad- 
dingten’s map. If the great Chinese map be correct, Samarcand 
can hardly be in less than 68° E. long. and Bokhara in 65. Heraut 
has been fixed in 63° 14’ by Captain Grant, or 2° 9’ farther E. than 
in D’Anville’s map; and if so, Bokhara, which lies to the N. E. 
ean hardly be much less than 65° of longitude. Observations alone 
can determine the question ; and it is not prebable, from the de- 
plorable fate of the much lamented Moorcrofte, that Europeans 
will be enabled to settle the longitude mentioned above, for a long 
time to come. In the mean time, Waddington’s map, which is the 
best we yet have of the regions beyond the Oxus, clearly shows 
how little help is to be obtained from the Oriental Tables, in set- 
tling the true longitudes and latitudes of the cities of Mawalnahar 
and Western Toorkistaun, ~ 
In Nasreddin’s tables, the region of the Beloor Taugh is placed 
4° K. of Badakshan. Now this latter city is placed, in the great Chi- 
nese map, in 72°37’ E. long. which would make the longitude of the 
Beloor 76° 37’, or 37’ farther E. than the longitude of Cashgar it- 
self. But it must be remarked, that Mr. Fraser has solved this 
dificulty, by informing us that there are two cities called Badak- 
shan, the western one lying on the Kokcha, called also Fyzabad in 
Elphinston, whilst the latter is a city of considerable importance, 
bearing the same name as the province, and near the foot of the Be- 
loor. It must therefore be from the former, or the Western Badak- 
dakshan, that the Beloor is placed 4° E. in Nasroddin, otherwise the 
longitude would not only be erroneous, but also in perfect contra- 
diction to the account given by the Chinese general of his pursuit 
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