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Encyclopedia Britannica



SAFED KOH (" white mountain ")

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 995 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SAFED KOH (" white mountain ") , in many respects the most remarkable range of mountains on the north-west frontier of India, extending like a 14,000 ft.
wall
 , straight and rigid, towering above all surrounding hills, from the mass of mountains which overlook Kabul on the south-
east
  to the frontiers of India, and preserving a strike whichbeing more or less perpendicular to the border lineis in strange contrast to the usual conformation of frontier
ridge
  and valley. The highest
peak
 , Sikaram, is 15,620 ft. above sea-level, and yet it is not a conspicuous point on this unusually straight-backed range. Geographically the Safed Koh is not an isolated range, for there is no break in the continuity of water divide which connects it
with the
great
  Shandur offshoot of the Hindu Kush except the narrow trough of the Kabul river, which cuts a deep waterway across where it makes its way from Dakka into the Peshawar plains. Strategically it is an important topographical feature, for it divides the basin of the Kabul river and the Khyber route from the valley of Kurram, leaving no practicable pass across its rugged crest to connect the two. Its western slopes, where it abuts on the mountain masses which dominate the Kabul plain, are forest-covered and picturesque, with deep glens intersecting them, and bold craggy ridges; the same may be said of the northern spurs which reach downward through the Shinwari country towards Gandamak and Jalalabad. Here the snow lies
late
  and moisture is abundantbut on the southern sun-scorched cliffs but little vegetation is to be seen. Approaching the Peshawar plains the Safed Koh throws off long spurs
east
 -ward, and amongst the foothills of these eastern spurs the
Afridi
 
Tirah
  long remained hidden from European eyes.


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