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2 CAUKESa*
3 perfpctly obedient to the King, to whom they pay revenue, and fur-
4 nish a Jarpe porrlon ot troops. They hnve no wars with their neiMi-
5 hours, and their own MooUahs^ or the King's Cauzy at JL(^pir, settle
6 their internal disp\it(^s,
7 WTiat remains unmentioned of the country inhabited by the AT'
8 ^hauns, belong to the tribe of Cankers. Surrounded by the Beloches,
9 oi by reinoLL' Lubes of Alghauns, it is nearly inaccessible to enquiry ;
10 and, tliough 1 have obtained particular anxmnto of some parts of it,
11 and have heud numy Tague idatioaa from tnvellfln mpedJiig tbe
12 lanamder, my notboi da. Hie Mibject ate atill indiatinct, and I muit
13 fiiTCgo the attempts I have latheito made at minute deicriptioii, both
14 with regard to the Cauken and their oomitzy.
15 "Hie boondaiy of the Canker tanatxy, on the noith» ia the aame aa
16 the aouthem bonndaiy of the GhiQiea: on the noitb-weet it haa Up>
17 gjhemaun* the part of Toba ' which beloiigi to the Atcfaifcayeat and
18 Mieen j.ob Ae wert, the conhtacy of the Belochea i od the south,- that
19 of the Speen Tere^ ; and on the east* the range of Solimaiin and
20 tome of the little countries at ita'baifl^ whidi have been already de^
21 •cribed. The whole forms a square of about a hundred miles.
22 ■ The west of the Cauker country is mountMnoitt. ' Its most distin-
23 guishing feature appears to be the range which I have mentioned as
24 running north and south between longitude 68' cast, and longitude
25 6^) oast. West of that ranfrc. the iirst ]ilace in the Cauker country,
26 coming from ilic aortli, is Setoona Daug (a high, cold, and barren
27 plain, suited only to pasturajjc) aiul ihe Cauker part of Toba, which,
28 thougii more mountainous, piDbahly resembles the part already d&.
29 scribed as belonging to the Atchikzyes. Further srnith, this high
30 plain ceas^ but there are mauv vallevs in the hills, and l or Alurgha,
31 Burshore, Nareen, Togy e, and iiuima, are particularly conspicuous
32 among those which open to the west. Still further south, the hills in
33 queation are' only aeparated from the taUe land.crf' Edant by the oar-
34 ■ow valley of Bolaon. The valley of Burahore deaervea nuxe part^
35 Golar mention*
36 It commeneea at Uie aonroe of the Loim and aooompamea that river
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