The Nāṣirī Generations 248.4.6

248.4.6

this is not the name irruption of that race, and domination of that nation, up to of the people, but merely their nickname] which is the Paras or Pars-Kol — I-mil — Irtish — [or Irdish — also the name of a tract of country] and the Paras-Kol is its eastern limit ; and the W. boundary is the territory of Turkistan and Tashkand [the Altan or Golden Mountains, the northern boundary of Tashkand]. The writer was himself well acquainted with its southern boundary, and, respecting the other three, obtained his information from persons who had visited, and were acquainted with them, and Mughulistan consists entirely of mountains and plains [steppes].” What he himself saw of it, he says, he cannot find words to praise sufficiently, and that, from the accounts of others, the other parts are equally delightful, but the winters are cold. “Mughulistan,” he says, “has several rivers, like unto the Jihun and Sihun in size and extent, such as the I-lah — I-mil — Irtish — Juilik — and the Narin — all of which, in respect of volume, are not less than the Jihun and Sihun. These waters mostly fall into the Kokjah-Tingiz, which is a Kol or Lake Bae-Kol [the Baikal Lake of our maps] between Mughulistan and Uzbakistan. Its length is eight months’ [weeks’?] journey, and its width, in some places, by computation, is thirty farsakhs, and, when it is frozen in the winter, the Uzbaks pass over it, and enter Mughulistan. The Issigh-Kol is also in Mughulistan.”