'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [259] (301/476)
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BELOOCHISTAN.
259
prize and doubt, when we find that recent discoveries teach us to
look to Asia as the seat of the most sublime and stupendous piles on
the face of the earth. *
I am not aware that any of the other ranges of mountains within
the boundaries of Beloochistan are entitled, either from their mag
nitude or elevation, to a critical recapitulation in this introduction;
and more especially, as a review of each province will afford me an
opportunity of particularizing any observable localities that may
have been heretofore neglected with respect to them. For a similar
reason, I shall likewise defer the unimportant observations that the
streams will require; here merely premising, that there is not a
single body of running water in the northern parts of this country,
worthy of a more eminent appellation than a rivulet, unless when
swoln by partial floods to a tumultuous and unfordable torrent, nor
one, even of that description, that can be said to flow through a
regular and unbroken channel to the main, as will be seen when they
come forward in the fixed rotation of the divisions, to a consideration
of which I now turn my thoughts.
eye, of the Lukh or pass nearest the desert, and comparing its apparent length and steep
ness with some of the Ghauts of India, of whose ascertained height I am apprized, I
should pronounce its summit to be five thousand feet from the sandy flat beneath. If we
moderately, add one moiety of this for the other six passes, between that spot and the
city of Kelat, and grant the desert as the base of the whole, to be elevated of itself five
hundred above the level of the ocean, it produces an aggregate of eight thousand feet,
an elevation exceeding by one eighth the altitude of the loftiest point of the Pyrenees.
* The late Lieutenant Macartney of the Bengal army who went as surveyor with the
mission to Kabool in 1809-10, estimated the mountains of Hindoo Koosh at more than
twenty-two thousand feet; and Lieutenant Webb of the same service, who was deputed
in 1807 to discover the source of the Ganges, by a mean of observations makes the
Himalayeh range twenty-one thousand feet above the plains of Rojiilkund.
Vide Asiatic Researches, vol. xi. p. 644. Calcutta edition.
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Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.
Publication Details: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1816 Printed by A. Strahan, New-Street-Square.
Notes: Printer's name from colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. .
Physical Description: xxx, 423, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (col.), 1 map ; 28 cm. (4º)
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- 'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.'
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- Pottinger, Henry, Sir, 1789-1856--Travel
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