42 Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Products 



bread, as the food and drink of the people. The fields of the 

 water-melon are a great attraction to the wild pig, which do 

 much injury to the crop unless the fields are well watched. 

 Whether it is owing to the climate, or the soil, I cannot say, 

 but the melon in flavour, and sweetness is much superior to 

 any that I ever met with in the Punjab. The natives assert 

 that at Herat a syrup, or molasses, and even a sugar is 

 prepared from the water-melon. 



Citrus Aurantium, Linn. Rutace/e. 



The sweet, and a bitter orange, nauring, auranj, utranj ; 

 are extensively cultivated in the Caspian provinces of Persia, 

 whence the fruit is imported through Meshad into Herat and 

 Afghanistan. The fruit cut in two, with the pulp removed, 

 is dried and sold in the bazaars as post-i-ncmrinj, to be em- 

 ployed as a condiment. 



Citrus medica, Liym, var. acida. RuTACByE. 



The Lime, llmon. This fruit in a fresh state is imported 

 from the Caspian provinces of Persia. In a dried condition 

 from both India and the Caspian. It is largely consumed 

 both in the fresh and dried state, and the importation is said 

 to be much larger than that of the sweet-orange. 



Clay — gil. 



A coloured clay is gil-i-harang, red clay gil-i-surhh ; these 

 are obtained at the localities Barang and Para in Persia. A 

 red clay employed in the adulteration of Asafoetida is called 

 tclwa. The great plains of clay left by deposit from water 

 are called "pat. 



Cloth — 



The commonest coarse cotton country fabric is karhas and 

 kanawez; made of camel's hair, barak; of fine goat's hair, kurk, 

 kurg, also pat, p)<^iu ; made of sheep's wool, patu. The 

 material of which the black tents are made is coarse goat's 

 hair. 



Clove — the flower buds of Eugenia caryophyllata. 

 Clover — the clovers cultivated for fodder are 



