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2 114 OOMUL.
3 AB the streanis I have mentioned unite at Baureekaub, and form
4 the river of Caubul* which flom npidly to the^eaaty iBcraaied 1^ all
5 the faKOoka from the hills on each side. It receives the river <^
6 Kaushkaur . at Kaumeh, near Jellallabad ; and, thence runs east,
7 breaks through the minor branches of Hindoo Cooab, and ^osfSA nu-
8 niPT-nus rapids and whirlpools, *
9 After entering the plain of Feshawer, the Caubul riv'or loses a p^ood
10 deal ot its violence, but is still rapid. It breaks into dilU n nt
11 branches, vi^ch join again after they have received a river, formed
12 by two streams, which come from the valleys ot Punjcora and Swaut ;
13 and, having now collected all its waters* it enters the Indus a little
14 above Attok.
15 The Caubul river is very inferior to the Indus, being fordable in
16 many places in the dry weather. The Indus, indeed, was forded
17 above the junction by Shauh Shuja and his army, in the end of the
18 frinter of 1809; but, this wu talked of aa-ftiniraclei wniuglbft in -the
19 Cqg^B &TOiiri and» I never heaid of any other Ibxd in die Jbidlii^
20 from the place ' where it issues fimm' the mountains to the see. >
21 Behm Attok^ the ' LomIiis leoeiTes' the Toe and other taooks ; bot^
22 nothing'deserving of the name of a rivor^ till it reaches the soutihem
23 psrt of Fwmkhail It is there joined by the Koimmi, whidi rises
24 near Hoiyoob^ beyond the ridge of the Solimauny mountainsy and
25 runs east throQgli a very deep valley in tiiat ridge» aa 6r as Bimak-
26 haOy where it turns more to the south, and enters the Indnay near
27 KaggalwaUa. Its bed is there broad, but very shallow.
28 ^le only river which runs into the Indus, south of this, is the G<n
29 nral \ andy eren it can scarcely be said to do so^ since its waters ate
30 spent in the cultivation of the north of Danunm» and never reach the
31 InduSf but when swelled with rain.
32 * Dangerous m mich a navigation must people oAen descend it from Jdlallabad on
33 taAs, whidi daoot down ibe Mream with ineradible vdod^ : but not without coiuiderabl^
34 diiifw Am tke «ogIi% sad ikom tlw violam ef dw
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