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more to be said in connection with the hydrography of
Baluchistan. Far away to the south, on a clear day, may
be discerned a faint smoke-cloud arising from the great
volcano, the Koh-i-Taftan (“ or burning mountain ”’), snowcapped
 at 13,500 feet above sea-level ; whilst west as well
as south are the broken uplands of Sarhad, the happy

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hunting-ground of bands of Kurdish robbers—a country
where “law is not, and God is forgotten,” Nor is the
northern frontier of Baluchistan carried through districts
of much more promise than its western border... From
the Malik Siah Koh to the borders of the Quetta district
the boundary intersects the great desert of the Helmund,
passing about fifty miles to the south of the river, and
partly defining the southern watershed of its basin.