SULAIMAN HILLS, a mountain range in Afghanistan and the Panjab, forming the boundary of India on the west. It is thrown off to the south from the Allah Koh ridge betsveen Kribul and Ghazni, and, rimning southwards without a break, forms the system of mountains of Eastern Afghanistan and Baluchistan. They stretch from lat. 31° 35' 39" to 34° 40' 59" N., and from long. 69' 58' 39'' to 70° 0' 45" E., thtis bordering the whole Deltrajat in Bannu, Dehra Ismail Khan, and Dehnt Ghazi Khan districts. The highest peak, the TakItt-i-Sulaiman, newly tie west of Dehra Ismail Khan town, has two summits, respectively 11,295 and 11,070 feet above sea-level. The Kunun forms almost the only river of any importance, taking, its rise amongst their dry summits. Length from north to south about 350 miles. They form the watershed between the Indus and the Helmand. The axis of this chain runs close to Ghazni, which is elevated 7726 feet, and to Quetta 5540 feet. The highest part of the chain is near the Kolt-i Baba. It is called the Sided Koh and is 14,000 feet high. Near Ghazni it is 9000 'to 10,000, and near Quetta the same, the peak of Chahal-Tan being 10,500 feet. The east face dips rather steeply to the Indus, but the west declivity, much more gradual, to the table - land of Seistati.
From Tank down to Sind, the most important features in the range of hills are the three Takes. These tokes aro the narrow precipitous defiles separating the outer from the inner range. In places their gorges are so confined as to resemble fissures in the rock, not more than ten yards wide, and interrupted by. rocks running right athwart the defile ; occasionally it widens out, and the bed thus formed is choked up with sand. These glens and ravines, ahnost impassable to strangers, can be easily footed by mountaineers and their horse& From these defiles, running parallel with the outer range, there am numerous outlets opening into the plains. The base of the hills is skirted by a Mehra, or open uncultivated plain from 10 to 20 miles broad, having villages on either side ; it becomes contracted towards the south, near Dehra Gliazi Khan. In this vicinitylt is overgrown with brushwood, but elsewhere it is generally a naked waste, without any sign of life or vegetation. Cultivation is scattered, and de pends for irrigation on tanks, and on the mountain torrents rudely trained to descend in steps and terraces.