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Excerpt from The Mission to Kandahar: With Appendices First stage from Kohat to Nasratkhel, six miles - No permanent road yet completed; the old road is over an undulating cultivated country; crossing the drainage which runs into the Tori or Bara, to the left of the read; many watercourses in which would impede the march of artillery unless previously bridged or ramped: temporary bridges had been erected for the passage of the guns with the last Miranzai expedition, but this road of communication will never be complete until permanent bridges are constructed. The road passes the village of Muhammadzai at half way to Nasratkhel and at the entrance of the pass to the Bezoti hills called Ublan. The valley averages from It to 2 miles breadth; the bills to the north are in the possession of the Bezoti and Firozkhel tribes of Arakzaies, and are barren, precipitous, and rising up to a height of some 1500 feet above the level of the plain, but in no place commanding the road. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.