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2 C»AP. V.
3 ■BLOCHinAUN AMD LOWBft (ONDb
4 BELOCHISTAUN • b bounded on Ifie mxOk by A^haunistaim
5 and Seestaun, and on tfa» wnitii the IndiHi oeatn.} U Jvu
6 Upper Mid Lome Siadon theeaat, and Peak on ih^ iraatK . It ]a
7 •tx livndrad milM loii0» and time Irandftd and «fifty bnptti. - 1^
8 UvgCitdiyiaumor hiathat wfaich bdoiigi to Uie Khaun of . Uiiati
9 and eomprehcilda the graafter -pait of Sotwpaoitami, and the, .idiote
10 tdUe land of Uant lliefibnitbf tfaeaetiacfts idlowadd bMt the
11 aoil ia gftod, hut fiom the want of irater> the greater past m a nehod
12 and unoultivatad pJaub 'Bound OundAira. Dander^'aiMl edwr tgim
13 howerer* ia well waterad and ciilthrafted^ and yidda the pgodnrtlom
14 of IndlAi It is mostly inhabited by Jala, llie table land, on th9
15 eontiaiy* ia high, cold, rugged, and haino< - It afioida only. .4hi
16 ooaiaer produce of Aighaunistaun.
17 . The people aie Brahooee Beloches* mixed vrith Taujik8» there
18 called Dehvann. The ifonner people are like a mder aort of AS-
19 • XihB dqtflxomiBcttOjt betwMP BckducUun tani Caubui appears to reqiplrq * nore
20 eaitended aeoouiit fevmer coontiy, bat I tnut the geography of that part of Am
21 is alreiuly in better Iiandt.' lieni. Pottinger and lAtOL Christ were disputclied in iSbp*
22 by Sir John Mnlcolm, in rrplorf the Belochc cotinf re, and the east of Porsin. frnrto nt
23 tiuU time wbo^y unknown to iuuropeaus. They periormad this eot^rmng luul ua^r-
24 tant journey widi complete gucccss, and joined Sir Jc|lD Mdbofan at MarMi^M, almflit
25 on the borders of the Ottoman empire. The hardships, iatigucs, iirul a<l ventures of such
26 •a undertaking may wdl be inuigtned. LieuL Chriatic has since fisUen, galiandy headii;^
27 the Persians under his command, in a battle with the Russians; but I hope the paz<kn>
28 bm«f the iiilwtrtiilg jiimniiji whiA he and his associate perfimned with so amth ^cne>