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2 pknts, with, several elegant shrubs, aodmn the rocCs are rendved
3 beautiful by the rich verdure of the mosses with which they are
4 eovered. In the midst of ihe pnncqp«i vaUey» is the river of Swaut,
5 wetenng a rich though narrow plain, which yields two harvests, and
6 produces most sorts of grain : on the plain, bendes cultivated fruit-
7 trees, are numerous mulberry trees and planes.
8 The hills of Boonerc greatly resemble those of Swaut ; thev enclose
9 many litlle valleys, all opening on one great one, which nms south-
10 east, and contains the brook of Bnrrundoo. Tliese valleys are nar-
11 rower, and worse watered than those of Swaut, and are consequratly
12 less fertile.
13 I have now come to the seeming cur\'e, which is observeti from the
14 south of Hindoo Coosh, and wliich rises over Bajour on the west. That
15 projection, with the nearest jints of Hindoo Coosh, and some of the
16 neighbouring branches, is inhabited by the Seeapoosh Cauhrs, a
17 straui^e and interesting people.
18 The ascent to their country leads along fHghtful precipices, and
19 through deep and narrow hxdlowa, where the traveller is exposed to
20 danger by the pieces of rock that roll ftom the mountains above him,
21 cither looaened by rain and wind, or pot in motion by the goata
22 and wild MiiiwaU that browse on die diffi wliich omhang the road.
23 Hie Cnfiit inhabit nanow.hiife nch^and pleasant spots, producing
24 abundance of grapes, and for the moat part innnoonted by anow^r
25 sanmnts. Hie ooontiy of the Caufira extends b^ond the western
26 ai^le finmied bj-the curves and the xi^^ then pursues its ooiuae
27 westwavdf until it is lost in the PBropsmisan mountains.
28 •Tlie hiflj tract formed bj the inferior ranges, is nariiiw an^
29 in tins pact of the ^ain $ and particularly at the point of the southem
30 ptoyection» where the snowy mountain descends abruptly into the
31 low plain of JeDaUafaod. When the range resumes iits westerly
32 course^ the hills at its foot recover their extent and their character ; ,
33 tiiey then form the Odiistann, or High Lands of CSaubul, a country
34 watered by many streams, and described as even more dehghtlul than
35 Swaut.
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