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2 EARLY mSTOBT' FBOM VATm AUTHOR&
3 -fVom that time till the invasion of Baeuber, a period of three ceiv
4 tanm, different dynasties of Af<;hauns reigned, with some interrup-'
5 tiohs, over India; but the other dominions of the House of (Thore'
6 were early wrested Irom them by (h( King of Khwarizm, from whom
7 they were com|uereti bv Jengheez Khaun ; and the tribe of iSooree is
8 now reduced to a few fHTTuUes in Damauu.
9 During the government of the descendaTits of Jengheez, aad of
10 Tamerlane, and liis offspring, tlie Atghauii- nppear to have main>
11 tained their independence in the mountains; and at the time of Bau-
12 her, they seem to have been unconnected with all foreign powers.
13 Bauber, the descendant of Timour, and the aooeitor of 1h»'Omilt
14 Moguk, began his eatea bj'dM tancpeit of Ciiibiilr irtiiah'ww lu»
15 <«HMf^i tiU ths end of lib raian. Qn d<nrh_ CSMibul lOOMintod
16 H^bject to one of his 80iu» wUle the otfaor wm caqpeWfd ftom Indiv
17 by Sheer fihaul^ who fixuided enodier Afgfaaun dynasty, of do long
18 dufatioD. At hut the Houae of Tunoar «m 6niil3r eefbiiahed nt
19 India; ihe capital of their empire waa tianafaved fiom Ganbol to
20 Delly; and the piaina of Ajghiwinittimn were dhniled befenean Ae
21 onpirea of Hindoatan and Fenia } but the mountahia were never
22 aubjected to either.
23 In the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Aighaun tribe pf
24 Ghiljie fMinded an empire which included all Persia, and extended
25 on the west to the prea^ Umita of the Buaaian and Turkish empires.
26 Part <Mily of Afghaunistaun, however, acknowledged their dominionu-
27 Naudir Shauh overtlirew tliis dyniisty, and annexed most of Afghauni-
28 staim to Persia ; and, on his death, the present Afghavm monarchy
29 was founded ; whicli at its height extendtnl from tlie nciHi!)ourltood
30 of tlie Caspian sea, to that of the river Jiinma, and iix>m Uie Oxna to
31 the Indian ocean.
32 After this cursory notice of the facts relating to the Afgliauns,
33 whicii are ascertained by authentic history, we may now examine
34 what they say of themselves. The account they give of their own
35 Origin, is worthy of attention, and has already attract ed the iiotice of
36 an eminent orientaliat* They maintain that they are descended &om
37 II
38 Digitizeo by LiOOgle