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description: Excerpt from Ariana A Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Coins of Afghanistan With a Memoir on the Buildings Called Topes by C. Mason Esq.East has Company Mr. Walker. Although therefore something remains to be effected before the information can be considered as complete yet as so much that is authentic and novel has been added to our store I have thought it would be of service to geographical investigation to bring together the scattered details and arrange them in a form in which they might be readily consulted by the scholars and geographers of this country. The same purpose inuenced the attempt I have also made to follow the marches of Alexander into Bactria the Paropamisus and India until his departure from the latter country.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
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title: Ariana Antiqua: A Descriptive Account Of The Antiquities And Coins Of Afghanistan
publisher: Asian Educational Services