1 TEMPERATURE.
2 Hmntt the edd o£ winter is ray tmrne ; but the tanuner ironU be
3 boi, were not tlie air refreshed by a pennonent wind from the naitb-
4 weit In the high lyi^g diitriet of SnhfMir or Isfemir,' aoiitfa of
5 ItwiHTt^ mow is udd to lie for five months ; and all tlie water is frozen,
6 except that of the river which is then swollen and rapid Yet the
7 beat of smnrner it described at oppraMive^ and even the wind iaaoine^
8 tim^ heated.
9 The Gurmseer on the lower Hehnund, receives its name from the
10 heat of its climata Candahar has a hot climate. No snow falls in
11 winter ; and, the little ice that is formed on the edges of the streamSy
12 melts before noon. The heat of the summer is great : hot winds are
13 rtot unusual ; and, even the fatal simoom has been known. Yet the
14 heat is said not to be disagreeable to the feelings, and the oUmate ia
15 bullous for its salubrity.
16 In proceeding east from Candiiliar, the cold of the winter increases
17 at every stage* and the heat of the summer diminishes in the same
18 proportion. Even at Kelauti Ghiljie, snow falls often, and lies long,
19 and the Turnuk is often fiozeii so da to bear a uian. The summer
20 also is cool, and iiut wiiid^ are unknown. It is to be remembered that
21 Kelaut is in the lowest part of the valley of the Turnuk. In the iiigk
22 tract to the south of that valley, the cold appears to be as great as in
23 any pert of Afgfaanhiatiyin ; at Kelaee j&bdooiehe«m, the snow liea
24 for three or four months* and all that time the stresms are froaen so
25 eatobear emanonhoiaebaek. Ascending the valley of the Tumuk,
26 we at last leacb the lerd of Ghuenee^wbidi is generally mentionedaa
27 thecoldeatpertoftheidauiooimtiyUk tfaeCanbiddoini^^ The
28 ooldof Ghiianee is ipoken of aa eEoeaahre^ eren by the inbsdbttanta of
29 the cold countries in its ne^j^KNuiiood. For the greater part of the
30 winter, the inhabitants sddom quit thdbr houses ; and» even in the
31 dty of Gbune^tibeanow hea been known to lie deep for some time
32 after the vernal equinox. Traditions prevail of the city havuig been
33 twice destroyed by foils of snow, in which all the inhabitants were
34 buried. The dimate of the flat country to the south of Ghnsuieev
35 sieena little more mild than that of the ci^itMsl^ In Kuttawm, the
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