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Hungerford believes a great change had been effected in the late 19th Century, in the measure of information about regions of farther India in the North West. He claims that all that was known of the frontier geography was narrowed to a few lines running westward from India, and terminating in the cities of Afghan and Baluch highlands. The hills which faced us on our own border, onto which we could step from the plains, were still shrouded in mystery, and our ...
The present study tries to illustrate some of the many steps which are in the process of change as a great change has been effected in the measure of our information about the regions of farther India on the north-west. Long ago all that knew of frontier geography was narrowed to a few lines running west-ward from India and terminating in the cities of Afghan and Baluech islands. The hills which faced us on our won border on to which we could step from the ...