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THERE are certain moot questions relating to the mountains of the north-west frontier of India upon which it appears desirable to elicit the opinion of geographers. On this occasion I propose to discuss the western limits of the Himalaya; the northern and southern limits of the Hindu Kush; the parallelism and lateral communications of the ranges between the Hindu Kush and the Aralo-Caspian plain and of other parts of the north-west frontier; and the limits of the Iranian group of highlands, at its junction with the Tibeto-Himalayan and Pamir groups. Finally the proper route of a railway to India between Mesopotamia and the Indus is indicated along a remarkable line of elevated valleys parallel to the coast.
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On the Mountains of the Northern and Western Frontier of India 1 . Nature 21, 96–98 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021096a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021096a0