Excerpt from Our Northern Frontier: Being Observations on the Recent Advances of Russia Towards Hindoostan, and the Prospects of Trade With Central AsiaWe have left ourselves but little space to examine the other publications lately received upon this subject. The first, called Our Northern Frontier, ' is by Captain A. F. P. Harcourt, an Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab. Our Northern Frontier seems to us to strike a mean, in the justice of its views, between the wisdom of some, and the extravagance of others, of those put forward in the Advance of Russia towards India.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.