Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1876

(With three plates and a map.) Starting in the summer of 1875 from Srinagar the chief town of Kashmir my route lay through the pretty valley of the Pohar river and over the watershed dividing the drainage of the Jhelum and the Kishganga. [...] It was most enjoyable under the shade of the walnut trees in the village green but in the middle of the day in the sun the heat was great. [...] The plain immediately surrounding the Fort the centre around which the many villages are dotted is about four miles long and two miles broad bordered by the river to the north Jutial to the south and east and the heights of Nafur to the west. [...] and had our share of bread with a slice of raw cucumber and salt handed to each of us the curds were placed in the middle of the party and At the head of the Karrmtbar is is hike fanned by a glacier which darns up tho valley ; when the lake gets tuo full and heavy the dam breaks causing thu fearful rush of wawa* which makes the Indus flood."1870.] H. C. Marsh Description of a trip to the Gil [...] They are members of a group of kindred dialects which prevail about the head waters of the Oxus ; the klariPli being the only one of them whose home is on the east of Pamir on one of the affluents of the Yarkand river.