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2 ■ftnitty of Tobxn tiie iMigth» and* the mountams <wi the sbaiiL Tllie
3 upper part of it is namm and filled with thickets, but the lower part
4 is fertile* inhabited bj «n agneoUunfl |MOfile» and abounding in all
5 liMi |itoduce of Khorassaiii : were it not poasesaed by a different tribe*
6 one would be diaposed to wwiilBr H im port ^ Feaheen, Geam whidk
7 district it has no natural separation. The ralley of Hunna opens into
8 Rlifiwl. Its head is near the Cotul or pass of rinippui, whcPB .the
9 road crosses over a very high ridge into Zawura.
10 Shawl itself deserves some notice in this place, m it is inhabited bv
11 a tribe of Cankers called Cassye ; but, a.s i( was ^^rantcd by Ahmed
12 Shauii to Nusseer Khaun the Prince of Beloclu s, tor his service at
13 the siege of Tubbus, it is no longer to be considered as part of the
14 Afghaun country. It resembles Pisheen, but excels it in fertility.
15 The Cassyes are under the Beloche government, but tliey ha¥e~A
16 KhauH of their own, and are weU treated and flouriBhing. i£-aa^
17 oUier T«lle> b open td' liie wM; iSbey m aeitlier dartnigDSiiioil iif
18 tfaflir inhaUtntSf nor 'fbr tlie passage of iwub thtdi^ HHBif -bat
19 cnly iflbid a wmter letiwt to the €niker dieplMnb.
20 . To te eNt» Um nMantrim of 68^ kngltuds Mid -oiit iMriiwIigi
21 «rliMh diride Ibc gMte put of tiMt ii^^
22 flie wage of ftiBmiinn.
23 One TMige appem to nm to die eonth of Zbobe, ind to dh
24 flouiitry from Borae^ but I do not bdiofe it reaches any of the
25 branofaak'of CbUnunm. Another nrns to the south of Boree, divides
26 it for a oertun extent, from Zawura, Tull, and Chooteeallee, and
27 foima aottthcm limit of the Caukers. To the south' of Zewiira, .
28 Toll, and Chooteeallee, a broad belt of hills certainly stretdiea across
29 from the range of 68 ' to tbat of Solimaim. and forms the bounduj of
30 Aighannistaun on the side oi 8eeweestaun. . .
31 I h;isti}y review the districts included between these range8«
32 begiiininr,' [rom the soulh, and stretching north till I again meet the
33 known countries of the Ghiljies and Dooraunees. But before I enter
34 the mountains, it will be proper to mention the Cauker dmi oi Pun-
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