AKCHA  , a See also:

• TOWN

town and khanate of Afghan See also:

• TURKESTAN
• TURKESTAN, or HAZRET

Turkestan . The town lies 42 M. westward of See also:

• BALKH

Balkh on the road to See also:

• ANDKHUI

Andkhui . It is protected by a mud See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall and a citadel . Estimated See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population 8000, chiefly Uzbegs . The khanate is small, but well watered and populous . The See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers rising in the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern mountains, which no longer reach the See also:

• OXUS

Oxus, terminate in vast swamps near Akcha, and into these the debris of such vegetation as yearly springs up on the slopes of the southern hills is washed down in See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• FLOOD (in O. Eng. flod, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Flut, Dutch vloed, from the same root as is seen in " flow," " float ")
• FLOOD, HENRY (1732-1791)

flood .