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2 CHAP. IV.
3 WEBTEBM AfGHAUNS, DOO&AUXKES, CITY OF CANOAiUAllt TEEJBBMS AMD-
4 BABAICHSS.
5 'npHE countries hitherto described, consist of flat and low-ljSiig
6 plains, or of strongly marked ranges of mountains. The
7 plains arc hot and fertile, generally ]H>pu)ous, and almost all in-
8 habited by fixed residents. The mountains are high and rugged,
9 the tops covered with forests, and llic sides pierced bv deep valleys:
10 inhabited by tribes separated from each other, and only known to
11 the rest of the world by their assaults on strangers who penetrate td
12 their haunts, or by their incursions into the neighbouring plains.
13 Those which we arc now to review, have an op]iositc character.
14 They are mostly high and bleak downs, intersperseii witli moderate
15 hills, in some places desart, and in others ill-cultivated ; bare, open,
16 better fitted for pastura^ than for the plough ; and much inlinliited
17 by shepherds in moveable camps. The characters of the hiiJ\ and
18 plain countries run into each other ; nor is there any more marked
19 Ime of separation between the chaxacten of their inhabitants. Both
20 axe nmple, honest, and peaceable; and diougli there ia a dttferenoe
21 in the degree in whidi thoae qualitiea are pooncoaed bj difeent
22 tribeai there axe none who wouU be remarkable among Asiatic ne*
23 tiona ibr the want of them. Ibe western tribes, especially those of
24 KhoraflBaim, understand Persian much more generally than the
25 Eastern onea do ]ffindostaune^ and thdr dreasj arms, and habi-
26 tations, while they retain th«r national peculiarities, i^roach to
27 thoae of Feiaia. The character of the people, however, ia essentially
28 diflbrent fiom that of fhe Peruana ; and peifaapa the diffarenee is
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