Burnes, Alexander: Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33 (Band 3) (London, 1835)

and improvement of its trade. In either case, the
Oxus presents many fair prospects, since it holds
the most direct course, and connects, with the ex-
ception of a narrow desert, the nations of Europe
with the remote regions of Central Asia.