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deal resemble the Persians; the 
resemblance is, however, confined 
to the exterior, for their charac- 
ters are still marked with all the 
peculiarities of their nation. The 
other inhabitants are Taujiks, 
Eimauks, Hindoos, Persians, Sees- 
taunees, and Beloches, with a 
few Uzbeks, Arabs, Armenians, 
and Jews. 
There are many gardens and 
orchards round Candahar, and 
many places of worship, where 
the inhabitants make parties more 
for pleasure than devotion. Their 
way of life is that of the otherin- 
habitants of towns, which has al- 
ready been explained. 
PESHAWER. 
(From the Same.) 
The plain, in which the city is 
situated, is nearly circular, and 
about 35 miles in diameter. Ex- 
cept for a small space on the east, 
it is surrounded with mountains, 
of which the range of the Indian 
Caucasus on the north, and the 
Peak of Suffaidoch on the south- 
west, are the most conspicuous.— 
The northern part is divided by 
three branches of the Caubul ri- - 
ver, which unite before they leave 
the plain. It is also watered by 
the rivulets of Barra and Budina, 
which flow from the mountains to 
the river of Caubul. 
When we entered Peshawer in 
March,the upper partsofthe moun. 
tains around were covered with 
snow, while the plain was clothed 
with the richest verdure, and the 
climate was delicious. Most of 
the trees were then bare, but 
enough were in leaf to giye rich- 
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ness and variety to the prospect ; 
and, in the course of a fortnight, 
the numerous gardens and scat- 
tered trees were covered with new 
foliage, which had a freshness and 
brilliancy, never seen in the per- 
petual summer of India. Many 
streams ran through the plain,— 
Their banks were fringed with wil- 
lowsand tamarisks. The orchards 
scattered over the country, con- 
tained a profusion of plum, peach, 
apple, pear, quince, and pome- 
granate trees, which afforded a 
greater display of blossom than I 
ever before witnessed ; and the un- 
cultivated parts of the land were 
covered with a thick elastic sod, 
that perhaps never was equalled 
but in England. The greater part 
of the plain was highly cultivated 
and irrigated by many water- 
courses and canals. Never wasa 
spot of the same extent better 
peopled. From one height, Lieu- 
tenant Macartney took the bear- 
ings of thirty-two villages, all 
within a circuit of four miles.— 
The villages were generally large, 
and remarkably clean and neat, 
and almost all set off with trees. 
There were little bridges of ma- 
sonry over the streams, each of 
which had two small towers for 
ornamentateachend. Thegreater 
part of the trees on the plain were 
mulberries, or other fruit trees. 
Except a few picturesque groups 
of dates, the only tall trees were 
the Ficus Religiosa or peepul, and 
the tamarisk, which last grows 
here to the height of 30 or 40 
feet: Its leaves, being like those 
of the cypress, and very thick, the 
groves composed of itareextreme- 
ly dark and gloomy. Thetown of 
Peshawer itself stands on an un- 
even surface. It is upwards of 
