The Khyber Pass is the most important of the passes which lead from Afghanistan to India and has been adopted by the British as the main road to Kabul, its capital. Afghanistan is bounded on t e north by Asiatic Russia. The Khyber is a narrow defile winding between d fs of shale and limestone 600 to 1,000 feet high, stretching up to more lofty m unfains behind. No other pass in the world possesses such strategic important e or retains so many historic associations as this gateway to the plains of India.
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