The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I May 1840

These valleys descending in terraces towards the Cabul and the Indus form the mountainous country of the inner boundary of India to the north-west to which also belongs the plain above the valleys on the banks of the river as well as the northern declivity of the Tira chain before mentioned. [...] Just above Jelalabad the boundaries between the warm low lands of the east and the cooler highlands of the west are determined ; this little district of Jelalabad on the river Cabul and the stream formed by the junction of the Kameh and the Soorkhrood may represent the gate through which we enter the outer boundary of India. [...] 23) uses no other names (than the above) ; the intermediate country to the junction of the Choes (Kamen) with the Cabul may therefore have belonged to the Satrapy not the nation of the Paropamisadest Strabo§ sayi " near the Indus there are the Paropamisades above the heads of whom the mountain Paropamisus rises." Arr. [...] 475 (Lampatte) whose hilly district extends to the mountains of the Komedes hence up the valley of the Kameh and into the Cacasus over the Pengkora or Guraeus a country of wide extent while in Sanscrit Lampaka denotes only the inhabitants of the valley Latnghan on the western side of the Kameh valley. [...] This is the district between the Bagur and the Pengkora and on the other hand that to the Lundye in the north of the Cabul river to the diountains which include the Kameh from the east.