NOTES.—1. _Talikan._ 2. _Mines of Rock-salt._ 3. _Ethnological characteristics._ 4. _Kishm._ 5. _Porcupines._ 6. _Cave dwellings._ 7. _Old and New Capitals of Badakhshan._ XXIX.—OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN 157 NOTES.—1. _Dialects of Badakhshan. Alexandrian lineage of the Princes._ 2. _Badakhshan and the Balas Ruby._ 3. _Azure Mines._ 4. _Horses of Badakhshan._ 5. _Naked Barley._ 6. _Wild sheep._ 7. _Scenery of Badakhshan._ 8. _Repeated devastation of the Country from War._ 9. _Amplitude of feminine garments._ XXX.—OF THE PROVINCE OF PASHAI 164 NOTE.—_On the country intended by this name._ XXXI.—OF THE PROVINCE OF KESHIMUR 166 NOTES.—1. _Kashmir language._ 2. _Kashmir Conjurers._ (See App. L. 2.) 3. _Importance of Kashmir in History of Buddhism._ 4. _Character of the People._ 5. _Vicissitudes of Buddhism in Kashmir._ 6. _Buddhist practice as to slaughter of animals._ 7. _Coral._ XXXII.—OF THE GREAT RIVER OF BADASHAN; AND PLAIN OF PAMIER 170 NOTES.—1. _The Upper Oxus and Wakhan. The title_ Nono. (See App. L. 3.) 2. _The Plateau of Pamir._ (See App. L. 4 and 5.) _The Great Wild Sheep. Fire at great altitudes._ 3. _Bolor._ XXXIII.—OF THE KINGDOM OF CASCAR 180 NOTE.—_Kashgar._ XXXIV.—OF THE GREAT CITY OF SAMARCAN 183 NOTES.—1. _Christians in Samarkand._ 2. _Chagatai’s relation to Kúblái mis-stated._ 3. _The Miracle of the Stone._ XXXV.—OF THE PROVINCE OF YARCAN 187 NOTE.—_Yarkand. Goître prevalent there._ XXXVI.—OF A PROVINCE CALLED COTAN 188 NOTES.—1. _Government._ 2. “_Adoration of Mahommet._” 3. _Khotan._ XXXVII.—OF THE PROVINCE OF PEIN 191 NOTES.—1. _Position of Pein_ (App. L. 6.) 2. _The_ Yu _or Jade._ 3. _Temporary marriages._ XXXVIII.—OF THE PROVINCE OF CHARCHAN 194 NOTE.—_Position of Charchan and Lop._ XXXIX.—OF THE CITY OF LOP, AND THE GREAT DESERT 196 NOTES.—1. _Geographical discrepancy._ 2. _Superstitions as to Deserts: their wide diffusion. The Sound of Drums on certain sandy acclivities._ 3. _Sha-chau to Lob-nor._ XL.—CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF TANGUT 203