text: ) On whom the blame of these misrepresentations should be laid--whether on the officer who reconnoitred the ground or on the general who wrote the despatch--does not very clearly appear: yet the political agent at Quettah was removed from his charge for not having given notice of the construction in his vicinity of works which are now proved to have had no existence! During the progress of these triumphant operations in Western Affghanistan General Pollock still lay inactive at Jellalabad; and some abortive attempts were made to negotiate with the dominant party at Cabul for the release of the prisoners taken the preceding winter