1 DESCEIPTION OFllMK B£RDOQB.AiJN££ COUNTRY. ^
2 Bwttnfcii^ wfateiStameriiir imUad Into Mro gniifeioiiiedraMiln»'4diati^
3 guished by Ihajomdm oE GuM and'Smai), aadwiBBe bovnd to uitkt
4 ymom cousBOtottt nev<cr now £ngMgBa>iii:att9 wtr.* ;
5 .;'llie:iBeidnariiiin«ea;p(wwM'llie Julb lad ^c^^ linderiHtiidoo
6 Ckibilit nd: Hkmb cowiwliift vAJi-As nn^ Witn«in» tog^iluif
7 inUi the pUiitt- lof ,'Bqoiir dnd* BahsivcB.? ••TlHi'xiiiga ffindoo
8 43briiii^ f it; wffl. .be>«femiinlimTd, iB covered with peipetoal mow ; the
9 kflbbeneatli haive.tlwre .nimmits, but thdr sides are dothed wkh
10 woods of fiis, oaks, wahiuts» wild olives, and many other trees ; aod
11 alill lower, it haa been observed that all the fruitB «nd flowers of
12 sofie grow wild Hie fbceats on the nibimtams am faH. of.wild btMti^
13 of which tigers* leopards^ vokvmt- .bears, and hyenas, are the most re*
14 miarkable. The Caufirs occupy the highest <^ the habitable hills, and
15 those who are near the 'A%hauns, have been ooQverted to the Ma-
16 hommcdan religion, and ^aV tribtite to the nearest tribe. The lowef
17 hill'^ are frequentetl by Hiiuloo subjects of the Atghauns, who feed
18 large herds of butialotM and rfocks of goats. The lowest hills are
19 however, in some vs»en, inhabited and cultivated bv the A%haun8
20 themselves. The sides of the valle}^, wiien culHvatpfl, bear wheat
21 and barley, whicb depend entirely on the rain ; but the bottoms are
22 in ignit ed from the streams by which they arc always divided, and
23 yield all the productions of the plains. ITiese are wheat, rice. Indian
24 com, barley, pidse, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton ; but these are by
25 no means every where in equal quantities. Wlieat, maize, and rice,
26 are nearly equal m Peshawer, while the fornix pr^ionderat^ m Ba-
27 jour, and the latter in Swaut, ' -
28 The commonest animals are oxen, which are every where used for
29 tillage and ui Most parts for carrying burdens. Asses and mules are
30 ilao employed in carnage, but they, as vdl. » hpsiw, ae'uneoiimicm
31 in the tdle^ of ' Hindoo. Coosh } .andinm'diaBp mte nre in-Bi|gour,
32 Upper Svmnt* and Boonne. ' ^ .i -. . '; •
33 'Ille dimato varies fiomtliat.a£-lfe moif7*iiioiiiitaina. to dad ot