1 GHILJIE COUNTRY.
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3 which to the west towards the HMtamh otamtry, is least ftrtfl^i
4 and LoguT to the south, wfaidi contains many low hills, has most'
5 picture land ; but Cohdaumun, which lies north of the city, is the
6 finest part of these districts, and perhaps of the kmgdom. It ]iei»-iM
7 ks name hnplies. on the skirts of the moimtAin.s whence it derives an
8 abuiulani suppl) of water ; and so numi i oas at i- iho iruit trees pro*
9 duced in it, that the valley of Estaulel alone is rec koiuxl to contain^
10 six thousand orchards : the city and its ini mediate neighbourhood is
11 inhabited by a peculiar class of Taujiks called Exubulees, who arc
12 remarkable tor their activity and ingemiitys arui wlio have more than
13 once made themselves of con.sidL'iiiblti iaiporUiiice in Uic revolutions
14 of the state. The number of the iuhabitants of tlie tomi may be about
15 tiight diousuid. . A
16 ' Ihe vtlkQTOf tike iCmbul river, till it widwa JdMlalMri, alid«VBiBl»
17 <iie^e»untiy alwidy deacribed aa inlMiwted bythe >iido<mwooa» W
18 longs exdaaiT«lf'to tbe Ghiljies.- it woiild be todkNia*to deecrflM
19 illthe litdeTaUeyawbichnni up to Hmdoo^Coddi end M> MUi
20 Goby 'orto ifiedfy lli6>cold«iid httt plaine (abo?e'aiid iMneUli the
21 mooitenii) trtddi Me diillivMed faf the Ghilgiaa, aad the niiggnd
22 i<WHiwiitiiidBcii are fed on by thwr flocka; botlhkvaiy cttndeiilMii
23 wiU sugi^ the divenity of thttebniptwd broken i^on. i. . u':
24 Hie country of the Ghiljies forms a parallelogram, of whidi the
25 length is about a hundred and eighty* and the breadth abeilt eighty^
26 five miles. -The animals of the 6b£|)ie oounliy iie the 'same aa theiw
27 of the Dooraunee country.
28 The cUmato is rvrrv whore cold, but least so in the lower part of
29 the valley of ttie Tm nuk : ery where else, the winter is severer than
30 tliat of England, and the summer not mucii htitter.
31 The Ghiljies were in former times by far the most celebrated of
32 the Af^hauns. In the beginning of the last century this tribe alone
33 conquered all Persia, and routed the armies of the Ottoman i^oite^:
34 • See Hann!>y'- Trrircls, iinJ Jones'* Hittotre De Nntlir C'liali. 'Flu* f'lr'st of which
35 .contain* a very tiui ami uitoreitting account of all the sucoeneii and disasters of the OhiJjie*
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