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2 450 TULL CHOOTEEALLEE.
3 iM0^ who inhibli fleewee in the phttm of fleewcqHnin i dmiedfron
4 the reit of the tribe by moantMni and Bekdm, the jnTctente
5 enemiei of ibe Ctuher name.
6 Seewee it entered by m trwreOer fiom Dander, in the course of hit
7 Arrt merdi to the navthward. It is »flat>d7plaiiiofhaidciiiedck rt
8 but in some pbces its natural defects are fdieved by streams from the
9 hil!s. and round tHe town of Seewee at least, is hi^y cultivated.
10 The fnanees Btill form part of the Afghaun nationt and aie mder a
11 governor appointed by the King. It would be ciarious to ascertain
12 the causes which have sent them to this spot, and which have filled
13 the southern provinces of India with men of the Punnee clan, whose
14 emigration (from tlie ppriod when thw fi^^ure in the hiBtory of the
15 Deckan) must have {-.iko) place some liundred years ago.
16 Tln' inotintains to tlir tiortii of Seewee are inhnfiitctl by Beloches
17 (as are the southern parts oftlie rauire of Solimaun), but in the hills
18 to the south of Chooleealltie, w c tiud some independent Afnrhauns,
19 principally composed of the remains of the tribe of Lonee, whii li ui
20 one period made a great figure in the transactions of India. 1 he
21 history of the Dilazauks may throw some light on the fortunes of this
22 tribe, and it is mnarkable, that most of the tribes of A%haan8 who
23 have andeatly beea distinguished in India, haive nearly diaa|>peaKed
24 fiom iheb native ooimtiy. It is natoial to conchide tfasft tii^ havie
25 mt merely poai»d Ibith thdur. xednmlant popuktion (aa the Em^es
26 ha«e mote .leoently. done into Bcdiilwind), bnt have been driyen fiom
27 thair originai seats, and compelled to enter on the adrentuses to ^ihich
28 ttagr nwB their lepulatint abroad
29 Zsamia^.TiiUt and Chooteeallee msj^be oensidened' as one vaUqr
30 wdmaaaifU last into a plain. Zsiinira, the nppet-pait of Hbm wtSkifi
31 comasences near ChiipiMK and to the noilih east ef Boahiik. It is st
32 first confined between the mountama^ but soon expands sufficieaSt^
33 to admit of a degrae of cukivatioii» sod tmsk of one or two vary con*
34 sider^le villages.
35 TuU is still wider, . and the cessation of the hills which bounded ii
36 eathe north, aUowa ^ plama of fiorae and CbootaeaUee to woat^
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