1 DOOKAUK££&
2 S91
3 amnber of cteeoa ■adviHageiB mmt, I ■howlAliniighw; congdaHjbty
4 ocedd tliiit of the wanderiDg hfltddi*
5 Mhij putt of die ooiiii(ay» psrticalarfy round the dtiOyim m
6 Itig^jciiltmtodMaDypaBtofdieiroilii; in lemotv diitrida mmiio
7 wdl csuHivated tracts are to be met with* and even the mort deserted
8 BCl^XiiiB afibrd occasional marks of the indoirtiy dTthe hudMndatfiL- -
9 In treating of this country, I shall begin at the west (where the
10 ywrtflst conlraat will be found to what has been already mentioned)
11 and proceed eaatward till, as I approach the division fonnedy de<
12 acribedy aome tnoes will appear of the manners alieadj known to the
13 reader as peculiar to the eastern Aigbanna. In pursuance of thia
14 phm, I shall begin with the Doonninees and their southern neigh'-
15 hours the Baraiches and Tereens ; and then stretch east with the
16 Ghiljies, till I reach the valley of the Caubul river and the mountains
17 of Solimaun. The Caukers, whose lands extend from those of the
18 Tereens to the mountains just mentioned, will end all the part of my
19 account which is connected with fifeoL'rnpIn- ; ;ind the pastoral and
20 unsettled thbe of Nausser will conclude the deschptioa of the
21 A%hauiis.
22 The length of the country of the Dooraunees may he loosely said
23 to be 400 miles, and except in the north-w^ the general breadth is
24 from 120 to 140 miles.
25 It is bounded on the north by the Paropamisan mountains, ialiii-
26 bited by the Eiiuauks and llazaurch.s j on the west it has a sandy
27 dejiai t of various breadth, beyond whicli are the Persian dominions :
28 on the south' west it has Seestaun and a deiait wfaidi aepaiaitta it'
29 from TModuataim t Hs southern boundary is ftimed- by flhcnauiiuk
30 and die hflJa of Khaujeh Anuami, wluch'SeparateitfiomtlieTereena
31 and Gaaiken i and on the east it iias no naitaral boimdary, but joins
32 la the lands of tiie 6hi|^ $ into wliidi tlie valley of Urgheasaunt
33 part of tiie Dooiaunee territoij, mns iat a o6nsidend>)e extent. The
34 number of sqoaie miles in thie Dooiaunee ooontiy is inobably aupe-
35 rior to that in Eng^nd} but it includes acme laige spaces of desatt,
36 and the ^^ft*^^ country is ]Riobably little superior to Scotland in