{"book":"adl0957","page":33,"text":"18\n\nand unprofitable. The mightiest of the Sulaiman Mountains\nis the one which is called Takht-i-Sulaiman (Soloman's Throne).\nIt may be seen on the western horizon from Dera Ismail Khan\nagainst the evening sky—a grey, flat-looking rampart rising\nfrom the lower line of mountains north and south of it, slightly\ndepressed or saddle-backed in the middle, but culminating in a\nwell-defined peak at its northern extremity. Such is the appear-\nance of the Takht (the peak) from afar. It is difficult to\napproach it for reason of the steepness of the cliffs and the\nscarps which surround it.\n\nCentral Afghanistan (or Hazarajat) is to a very large\nextent a land of difficult hills and deep and rugged defiles.\nThese numerous subsidiary ranges run mostly parallel to each\nother, and some of them extend as far as Kandahar. One\nexceptionally long spur forms the steep Khojak Range, which\nhas been pierced to allow a branch of the N.W. Railway to\nreach the Afghan frontier at New Chaman.\n\nThe Tirband-i-Turkestan.—This most important range\nlies south of Maimanah. It is about 120 miles long, and runs\nroughly parallel to the Firoz Koh. Its highest peak, Zangolak,\nreaches a height of 11,590 feet.\n\nPasses Leading to the Indus Basin.—The mountain\nranges forming the eastern boundary of modern Afghanistan are\npierced at many places by passes across which invading hordes\nhave poured in all ages to take possession of the fertile valleys\nbelow. They have also been the chief commercial links between\nthe sub-continent of pre-partitioned India and Afghanistan from\ntime immemorial. Most of these passes have been formed by the\nvalleys of the rivers flowing towards the Indus, and are generally\nnamed after these tributaries. The most famous among these,","chars":1740,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00033.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/33","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/33","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}