Proceedings
of the
Royal
Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Norton Shaw, Francis
Galton, Clements Robert Markham, William Spottiswoode,
Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie
Published 1879
The Basin of the Helmand.
By C. E. MARKHAM, C.B., Secretary K.G.S.
(Read
at the Evening Meeting, February 24th, 1879.)
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the Lumsden Mission to Kandahar
resulted in the collection of a large mass of useful
information. Still, the greater part of the Helmand Basin
is entirely unknown, including the Siah-Koh and nearly
all the Koh-i- Baba
mountains, several hundred miles of the courses of
the Helmand and of the Arghandab, a great part of the Abistada
Basin and the valley of the Arghesan. These, and the two
former papers on Afghan geography, are intended as a
review of our existing knowledge, to which great and
important additions are certain to be made by Major St.
John, Captain Holdich, and other zealous geographers and
explorers now serving in Afghanistan.
A description of the valleys of the
Upper Oxus, of the Murghab, and the Hari-Rud, would
complete this view of the geography of Afghanistan, and I
trust that an abler hand may undertake the preparation of
such a paper, as a contribution to some future number of
our ' Proceedings
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