Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 2 of 3): Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833

Name: Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 2 of 3): Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833
Author: Alexander Burnes

Alexander Burnes · 1841

Limits and Extent.--Natural and political Divisions.--Physical Geography: Face of the Country.--Climate and Phenomena.-- Rivers.--Mountains.--Mineral Productions.--Vegetable.--Necessaries of Life.--Fruits and Wines.--Domestic Animals.--Wild Animals.-- Birds.--Silk Worms.--Diseases: Guinea Worm.--Cities and Towns.--Population of the Kingdom 153-185 Source and Course of the Oxus.--Sea of Aral.--Capabilities of the Oxus.--Depth, Current, and Slope.--Inundation.--Freezing.-- Craft on the Oxus.--Mode of navigating them.--Wood of the Oxus.--Political and commercial Advantages of the River 186-199…

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