1 ATTOK. 173
2 The hill of Attok may occupy with its spurs
3 about two miles each way, ore four ‘square
4 miles. It consists of several heights; the
5 lower portions are of slate rocks, and ‘some of
6 the highest peaks are likewise slate. Others
7 again are limestone, of the spongy kind which
8 we saw in’ several other places. At the base
9 of the hills, but at some length above the plain,
10 there are quantities of pebbles of different sizes.
11 There is no well inside the fort of Attok,
12 but water is supplied from the river through
13 a passage called Abduzd, which communicates
14 with the river through a bastion about fifty feet
15 high from the surface of the water. It is said
16 the river once rose so high that it overflowed:
17 the walls of the Abduzd, and a boat ran into it.
18 A story is that there was a Baradari or pavi-
19 lion close to the Abduzd, but lately pulled down.
20 Nadir Shah, the Persian Emperor, on, his re-
21 turn from India, stayed a night in this fort,
22 during which a notorious thief came into it
23 through the Abduzd from the other side of the
24 river, and, climbing up the walls by means of
25 striking nails into it, slowly glided into the