1 aaa • - valley of swaut. • ; . .
2 die bot plain of Bailunrar. Mbtt ■even <if the bdnUlila mouaMnii
3 have enovr <m tfadr tops, fiom' finir- to fa moniha in the year.' Of
4 ihe vaUeya* Upper Swaut haa a deliglitfal dimaCe^ never hotter than
5 the dog-days in Eiigbuiid« and never .very odd. Lower Swaiit»*beu^
6 confined hy hiUa, is hotter than Beahawer, aa ia Bijoiir in iunimer»
7 Ibrthe-aame xeason i hot in winter ita elevation makea it aomewliat
8 colder, and mow liea fiir three or finir dsya every year.- ' , ^. *:
9 .; The £oao&yes ave a very numerooB tribes divided .into many little
10 oommonili^ chiefly imder democratic oonstitniiona. Th^ poDocM
11 the e^atendve coontiy between the OtmaiinUiaU mountains and the
12 Lidus*' Hindoo Coosh, and t)ie river of- Caubul, oon^sed of the
13 northern part of the phun of Feahawer, and the valleya of Pkoycoia)
14 Swaut, and BoonerOi Tfaey.alao poaaeaa Dnnntoar» ontheeaatem
15 aide of the Indus.
16 The Eusofzre part of the plain of Feshawer extends along the
17 banks of the Indus, and the river of Caubul, firom Torbela to Husht-
18 nu^er. The bretulth of it, between the moiintaini? on its north and
19 the rivcT^, varies from two miles to ten. It is all very rich, but less
20 so in the centre than at either ( xtiemity. Immetliately to the north
21 of this plain is a Lliairt ot mountains, beyond which is a broad vallev
22 called Chumla. < Mending from T/iwer Swaut to the InduSj and
23 bounded on ilie north by the mountains oi Ikjoncic.
24 The vallev of Swaut opens on the plain above meiUUMn d ; it is
25 divided tlirough its wlioU i xt^ nt by the river Lundye, which at first
26 runs south-wesl iVoai liie mountains to 'i ootookaun Mutkunee, where
27 the river of Pun jcora joins it from the north-west. From this point,
28 its course is southerly. The valley of the i .undye, down to its junc-
29 tion with the river of Punjcora, is called Upper Swaut ; and below
30 the .jonetioii it is called Lower Swant. The upper part of Punjcom
31 It moancainons, and thinly peopled^ but the lower part'of;the valley,
32 andgetacvally speaking, all to the south of the is ridi and highly
33 cultivated. Deer, the residence of the diici^ is m the upper pai^
34 jnd contains about five hundred bouses.
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