1 1S6 TEMPERATURE.
2 wwitiim it • verj faoi oountty; sad Scwee is ptanMuHj His
3 iMitteitfikoe in die Idngdom of Citib^
4 TiiltGiooteeBllee,and Zawurehuo, Biebjno meini so betas fiewee i
5 ■nd the dimate of Boree is temperate thnmi^out the jesr ; the
6 winter leans to be ss cold a.s that c£ Feshswer, and the summer less
7 hot I can only speak of Zhobe by conjecture} but I should think it
8 iKSs oooUer than Boree. If we ascend horn Seweestaun into Khoras«
9 san, at a point to the westward of the countries I have just described«
10 we find the Dushti Bedowleh, the cold of which is described as being
11 very levevs in winter ; in Shawl, it is more moderate ; and in Pisheen
12 still more so than in Shawl ; yet, even in Pisheen, standing water freezes,
13 and snow sometimes lies for a fortnight. Burshore is st ill colder than
14 Pisheen ; but Shoraubiilv, lying lower than Plshecn, and bordering on
15 thcdosart, has a hot climate ; snow never falls ; the edges and sur-
16 face ot standing water freeze in winter; but, in summer, the siiul is
17 heated to such n degree as to render it impossible to walk on it bare
18 footed. North of Pisheen are the hills of Toba, in which was situated
19 the summer retreat of Ahmed Shauh. Of them, and oi the other
20 mount;iiiis .ilioul Pisheen, and tliosr in the west of the Canker country,
21 which aiijoiu to tiiem, I can only make the same obvious remark whicli
22 I have applied to other mountains, that the climate of |)laces in them
23 raries witii the elevation. Going nortii trora Pisheen, the heat increases
24 till we reach C'antlahar. The Doorannee country is generally tempe-
25 rate towards the north, and hot towards the south, but, probably, in no
26 part so hot as Peshawer ; where it includes part of the Paropainisaa
27 range, as to north of Candahar, the cold in winter and heat in sum-
28 mer ave both severe. Zemindawer, which lies immediately to the
29 south of those moiBitatns, is described as a temperate and sgreesble
30 diniate. In the most northerly part of the Dooraunee ootmtiy, nest
31 * I har«heMid asq^g about Scwee, which, however, 'i» applied by the Fusions to
32 many other romnrkultlv hot places. " Ai Kli ontia Choon Scewee daushtee chenDotoUl
33 Saukhtee." U God, when you had iSeewee, why iimi you have toiKk Hell?
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