Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal June 1849

earlier times for merchants to make the venture of the entire line of traffic ; the iiitrchandize of Hindustan was carried by Indian merchants to Afghanistan ; by the merchants of this conutry.to Persia ; and by the traders of this quarter to Syria or Egypt and so on ; the inhabitants of one end of this chain received bat a very confused and indistinct account of the proceedings of those at th [...] No discrimnation is used to discover either the correct reading of the written words the proper position of the vowels and marks the undoubed letters of the Abjud numeration giving the latitudes and longtudes or lastly the credit due to the authority ; and thus the more modern the author the greater chance he has of containing the accmulation of all the errors on these points comm [...] 94° 50' and the third climate on the borders of the desert of Scinde on the authority of Kanoon ; ahitost identical with the above fixings of Rukhuj by the same author. [...] The main stream of the Hurce rood early in summer when full by the melting of the snow passes beyond Ghorian and always reaches a small village called Surrukhs east of Ghorian and hence has aris!_.n the idea that the waters of the Herat river ran to the distant large districts of Surrukh.v near Merve. [...] in the early Arabian conquests a collection of such villages and hamlets obtained the name of the canal on which situated as the Rood Unjeel lrtt after the settlement of the Moguls the word Bolook—the Torkce term for a spring—was substituted and the same collection is now called the Bolooke Unjeel.