'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎251] (293/476)

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dencies within the limits of Beloochistan, their comparative altitude,
length and breadth, with such other facts of a general nature as may
enable my readers to comprehend with greater facility, the more
detailed remarks that the divisions will severally demand.
In traversing Beloochistan from the province of Lus to the fron
tiers of Uffghanistan, between the sixty-fifth and sixty-seventh
degrees of east longitude, I found it uninterruptedly mountainous.
This stupendous range, to which I venture to assign the appellation
of the Brahooick mountains, from the people (the Brahooes) who
inhabit them, is the primitive root of almost all the others, and con
sequently, merits peculiar attention in this disquisition, in which,
influenced by its formation, though contrary to usual practice, I
shall commence from the southward, and trace its progress from the
coast to the inland extremes.
It springs abruptly to a conspicuous height and grandeur out of
the sea at Cape Mowaree, (Monze) in north latitude 25°, east lon
gitude 66' 58', whence it assumes a north-easterly direction for ninety
miles; it there projects a ridge east by north, the base of which is
washed by the river Indus at the fort of Sehwan; however, this is
so secondary in size that it only deserves notice as being the most
easterly point of the whole. From the separation of this arm, in
latitude 25° 45' to that of 30°, the primitive body runs due north;
now marking the western limits of Sinde, Kutch Gundava, and a
part of Seeweestan, as it formerly did that of Hindoostan; it thence
once more regains its original inclination to the north-east, and de
creases in magnitude and elevation so rapidly, that in the course of
forty miles it sinks to a level with the hills inhabited by the Kaukers
and other Uffghan tribes, with which it becomes incorporated.
Were I to extend my inquiry farther in this quarter, or had I
begun this examination of the Brahooick mountains from the upland
regions to which I have followed them, I hope with sufficient ex-
plicitness, instead of the coast; it is evident, that in either cases,
it would be necessary to investigate the origin of the hills with
which they unite ; but, as doing so would induce a lengthened dis-
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