Even at the present day it may not be entirely extinct, for some twenty years
ago, Mr. R. B. Shaw found that the Kirghiz of the Pamirs called Chitrál by the
name of Pálor. 'Toallother inhabitants of the surrounding regions, however,
the word appears now to be unknown.
— I would only remark that when our author gives the provinces of Kashghar
 &nd Yarkand as the eastern boundary of Balur, he appears to be somewhat at
fault in his orientation. 'The province of Kashghar, at any rate, can hardly
have formed part of the eastern boundary, if Kabul and Lughmán (the Lumghán
of the text) formed the western, and Badakhshán the northern limits, as he con-
ceives them to do. . He appears to have been facing about north-west, when he
imagined himself to be looking to the north, and thus to have displaced his
bearings by about 45 degrees, all round the horizon. If Kashghar was the
eastern neighbour of Balur, Badakhshán must have been the western and not the
northern, and so on. Again, Sarigh-Kul and the Pamirs must have formed part
of Balur, but this, from Mirza Haidar's own statements, does not appear to have
been the case. His description of the country, products, and people applies
obviously to the region south of the Indus water-parting range (the Eastern
Hindu Kush), and not to the open Pamirs ; while his return from Balur to Sárigh
Ohupán, also implies advent from the region south of the mountains.
