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3 very common about Pcslmwer, which much resembles that m Enghab
4 gardens caJltnl Devil in the bnsh.
5 We encamped on a very agreeable spot, where a point covered
6 with green sod, and sliiided by some trees, projects into the deep,
7 cl^r, and rapid strciiiu of the Caubul rivert here about four hundred
8 yards bioad ; on tlic oppmite shore is llie village of Nou^hehra.
9 Mauy Eusoizyes crossed the mer to see us. I waa much stnidk on
10 this day with llie long duratioD of the twilight, which, with the length
11 of the day, is novel to a tmyetter fiom India: day luoke (on the 16kh
12 June) at .a quarter after three^ and the sun did not rise tall within tan
13 minuttti of five.
14 Our neit maich waaalong the Caubul river to Aooia, the princqial'
15 town of the Khuttuks, where we mw Asoph Khaun, the diie^ and
16 many of the principal men c£ the tribe. Asoph Khaun was a
17 very respectable looking man, very handsomely drened, and well
18 lUt^ded. The others were m<»tly elderly men, dressed in dark
19 blue, or black, with fiur csomplei^ona, long beards, and reverend
20 countenances.
21 The whole of our march had hitherto betn between a range ot
22 hills on the south, and the Caubul river on tJir north, which had
23 approached each other at Noushehra, so as only to leave room to
24 . encamp between them.
25 On the march of the 18th, which reached to the Indus, the hills
26 came dose to the nver of Caubul, so that we were obliged to cross
27 them. Ihfij belong to the same range which we paieed near Cohauft,
28 and we were reminded that Ihey contained the lame iwtWM^^mj bj
29 finding Khuttuk guar^ poeted in the paaa to protect our baggage
30 fiom the KheibCTcci*
31 Fam the top of the pass we eaw to the nag&t the Indus iseuing
32 In a vaat number of channela fiom a mass
33 . aearoe allowed ua to see the toountains thiou^ which . it had
34 llmd. It, however, fi>imed but two' channela when it readied
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