Kaga-Suffa, from whence this view of the city is taken, is the burial-ground, remarkable for its neatness, numerous interments and tombs. Cabul has no pretensions to beauty, being huddled together and bounded on three sides by immense mountains occupying a space of about three miles in circumference with a strongly fortified wall running on the ridges. Externally, every house presents a blank mud wall, and the domestic arrangement of rooms and apertures for windows are in a court-yard totally unseen from without. It is too painful a subject to contemplate here, the result of movements of the British Army from this city after the treaty had been entered into by General Elphinstone to evacuate the city, or to dilate on the heart-rending disasters that befel the British during their march from hence, through the mountain pass of Khyber, but, suffice it to say, that there was but one European, Dr. Bryden of the 37th Bengal Native Infantry, who survived out of 6,500 troops and about 7,000 camp-followers who left Cabul, which place still contains many of our bravest commanders with, alas! the noble-minded Lady Sale and other British ladies as hostages who were escorted back to Cabul by command of that detestable and murderous ruffian Akhbar Khan. Captain Colin Mackenzie, one of the prisoners, is now on parole to General Pollock at Jellalabad, with proposals from the Chief and Mahommed Shah Khan, the Ghilzie, for release of the ladies and other prisoners. The result has not yet transpired. Sketches in Afghanistan, Henry Graves & Co. and W.H. Allen & Co., London, 1842. Letterpress title printed in blue incorporating list of plates, tinted lithographic title, dedication leaf, 25 tinted plates by Louis and Charles Haghe. This is one of the earliest collections of views of Afghanistan. James Atkinson, the celebrated translator of Firdausi’s Shah Nameh and one of the first Europeans to explore Afghanistan, was on of the pioneers of oriental studies. The lithographers Louis and Charles Haghe were involved in a number of important publications in the 1840’s and 1850’s and are celebrated for the particular high quality of their work.