The international geography . th littlefurther variation limits PersianKhorasan and passes with theHari-rud river to and Communications.—The lowest elevations to be shownin an orographical map of Afghanistan as under 4,000 feet would be theKabul valley at and below Jelalabad, and all the country south and westof a line drawn between New Chaman and Herat; the highest parts (over7,000 feet) of the Afghan plateau are great tracts just west of Kabul andsouth of Ghazni. Far from the sea, Afghanistan is difficult to enter;where huge mountain chains and toilsome passes do not hinder
The international geography . th littlefurther variation limits PersianKhorasan and passes with theHari-rud river to and Communications.—The lowest elevations to be shownin an orographical map of Afghanistan as under 4,000 feet would be theKabul valley at and below Jelalabad, and all the country south and westof a line drawn between New Chaman and Herat; the highest parts (over7,000 feet) of the Afghan plateau are great tracts just west of Kabul andsouth of Ghazni. Far from the sea, Afghanistan is difficult to enter;where huge mountain chains and toilsome passes do not hinder thetraveller, there appears heartbreaking sand which, in the south-west ofthe country, is swept during summer by a deadly hot wind. Two of thechief trade roads are those from Mashad and from Bokhara to Herat, thecentre of a well irrigated and richly cultivated district, which is connectedwith fanatical, unruly Kandahar by a main highway of commerce touchingat Farra and crossing the Helmand river at Girishk. There is traffic. Fig. •600ft LZJ Under I500fi.[llll500t0 6000ft^^eOOOto 12000ft. ? over 12000ft 242.—Configiivation of Afghanistanand the Pamirs. Afghanistan 467 between Bokhara and Kabul by way of Balkh (Bactria, the mother ofcities) and by Khulm. Chief of all the caravan routes is the grim KhaiberPass, naked and savage, two marches west of Peshawar, the terminus ofthe Indian railway system, and a famous bazar for Central Asian historic pass has resounded to the clangour of every great invasion ofIndia, except that of Alexander, who passed it to the north, until the Westsent its stubborn warriors up from the sea. It is held by sections of theAfridis who have blackmailed every Indian dynasty for centuries. Theyperiodically exact a tribute of slaughter from the Indian government inaddition to the customary tale of isolated murders; but the passionlessgrasp of British authority is closing upon them inexorably. Kabul, asorrowful name to the British, 190 mile
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