1 COUNTRIES WEST OF THE 80UMAUN.
2 12S
3 nUy fstUi^ and w«U Mood; but k u Uttte cuiavirted, and chiefly
4 used for pasture.
5 To the aoutfa-weii of Seeahbundy and east of Furrah, the oountiy
6 becomes move and inoEe arid aa it feoedeafironi the hilla* till it eodi in
7 the desart
8 Furrah is a considerable town, and the country round it is fertile, but
9 it is of no great extent ; so that Furrah itself, and some other tracts to
10 tbe north and south of it, seem rich islands in the midst of a waste,
11 approaching in appearance to a desart. Yet, this land dcM s not appear
12 to be naturally incapable of cultivation j and, it is probable, that
13 ^vherever there is water it is productive.
14 About twenty miles to the north of Furrah, wc meet the mountains,
15 which stretch across from tiie Paropaiiiisan range into Persian Kho-
16 rassttun. Among these mountains, which are covered with ibrests,
17 we find the extensive and fertile plain of Subzaur or Isfezaur.
18 Some more bairen country intervenes before we readi Horaut,
19 whidi ia aituated in an ample plam of nnequaUed iertilityy and aof*
20 vounded by hi^mountainSi
21 . The idiole.fif tlie country I hanre been deaaihing, fiom Kdbnti
22 * Cad^ to HcttHitt encgpt Seeahbwnd and flnhnaiir, ie inhaliifaHi byiSbm
23 tribe of BoorauDee* whidi is the greateit among the A^haulu. Its
24 l^eDeral alope ia to the south. randahar» and the country to the weat
25 itf lUavethebweatof ail the tiacta I haive yet deacribedweatof the
26 wage of Solimawn ; butt even they are much, more elevated than thd
27 plaina on the east of thoae mountains.
28 Returning to the neiglibourhood of Ghfimee, we find Zoonnool
29 divided firom Sirufze on the south, by a branch from Cohee Solimaun. '
30 ' CBni&a, Oorghoon, and Wauna, have been described as descending
31 in stages to the Gromul, which bounda them on the south, and as sl<^
32 inlg from the mountains of Solimaun westward towards the upper
33 course of the same river, which fonns their western boundary. They are
34 divided from each other by branches of the Solimnunco mountains, and
35 are «11 little cleared plaina among mountains, covered with forests of
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