1 262 SITUATION OF THE VALLEY. |
2 The valley of Peshawr has natural boun-
3 daries on every side. On the west it is bounded
4 by the Khaibar range, and the east by the
5 river Indus; on the north by the high lands
6 of Kashghar, and on the south by Bangish.
7 It is a very fertile, productive territory, and
8 hencé has been called by. all historians the
9 fort of Peshawr, four or five of us rode there in the after-
10 noon, and found him in readiness to receive us. After
11 proceeding through a street, formed by a squadron or two
12 of dragoons, and passing beneath a lofty and castellated
13 gateway in the northern face, we turned sharply to the
14 left, and cantered up a paved camp that leads to the
15 highest of the three stories, of which the fort may be said
16 to consist—the causeway being of breadth sufficient to
17 admit of the governor driving his carriage-and-four to the
18 summit. ‘Troops were stationed at the different angles,
19 who turned out and presented arms as we rode by. -In the
20 second tier are ranges of very comfortable barracks; and
21 wells to supply the garrison with water during a siege-are
22 to be met with every here and there. On the top com-
23 partment, in addition to au incompleted citadel, are build-
24 ings for‘ magazines and store-rooms; the latter he threw
25 open for our examination, and a vast number of ten-inch
26 shells at one end of a gallery, and a complete hill of bul-
27 lets at the other, besides lead and other requisites to make
28 up material, plainly prove that a warm reception would be
29 given to an attacking party.”—Barr’s Journal, pp. 266,
30 267.