1 144 PUN—PUR.
2 Eph, Ace. of PUNNAILAH, properly PUNIALLA, in Afghanistan, a
3 Cauley village of the Daman, on the route from Dera Ismail Khan to
4 Kala Bagh, and thirty-five miles north of the former town.
5 Though situate at the southern entrance of the valley of Largee,
6 a singularly barren and dreary tract, the immediate neighbour-
7 hood of the village is described by Elphinstone as “ a cheerful
8 and beautiful spot, such as one would figure a scene in Arabia
9 Felix. It is a sandy valley, bounded by craggy hills, watered
10 by a little stream, and interspersed with clumps of date-trees
11 and with patches of green corn. The village itself stood in a
12 deep grove of date-trees, on the side of a hill, from which
13 many streams gushed through little caverns in the thickest part
14 of the wood.” The inhabitants are a mixed race of Belooche
15 and Arab descent, and of notoriously predatory character. Lat.
16 32° 15’, long. 70° 58’.
17 PURANI DERIA, 8 minor branch of the Indus. — See
18 Nagra, Eastern. ;
19 1B.LC.Ms.Doc. | PUREAN,! in Afghanistan, a village in the Punjshir valley,
20 near the route from the Khawak Pass to Kabul, and about fifteen
21 miles south-east of the crest of the pass. It is situate on a small
22 feeder of the Punjshir river, and at a great elevation, as it lies on
23 yi heat Oxus, the mountain side above the fort of Khawak, which is 9,300? feet
24 above the sea. Purean is in lat. 35° 32’, long. 70°.
25 1E.1.C. Me, Doc; PURWAN,! in Afghanistan, a village in a valley of the same
26 ie name, which furrows the southern side of Hindoo Koosh, in lat.
27 34; Wood's Oxus, 35° 10’, long. 69° 12’. The valley is very tortuous, and is in
28 fai pemee ait one part a narrow rocky defile; in another it is of softer cha-
29 Baber, Bom. 139. racter, the sides rising in terraces planted with mulberry-trees,
30 the fruit of which, dried and ground, forms the staple subsistence
31 of the inhabitants. A small river flows down the valley, and
32 joins the Punchshir. Two passes proceed from this valley to
33 Turkestan—that of Purwan Proper, and that of Sir-i-Ulung.
34 The summits of both are probably very lofty, as a British party
35 found them impassable from snow in the beginning of November;
36 though those travellers, a few days later, succeeded in surmount-
37 2 Jour. As, Soe. ing the pass of Hageguk,? the summit of which is 12,000 feet
38 een tee 9 above the level of the sea. Purwan acquired some celebrity
39 Ther. Meas. in Afg. during the military operations in Afghanistan. Here, in November
40 1840, a British force attacked a party of Afghans, with the view
41 of capturing Dost Mahomed Khan, but two squadrons of the