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Candahar. Candabar, feated in Lat: 33° o' N. Long. 67° 15' E. is the 



capital of a recent kingdom, formed by the convulfion given 

 to this part of the eaftern world. It was founded by Ahmed 

 Abdalla, an Afghan prince, compelled by KoiiH Khan to join 

 his army in 1739. ^^ ^^ aflaflination of the tyrant, he ap- 

 peared again among his fubjedts, and added to his dominions 

 Candabar, CaJJnnere, and fome other fmall difl:ri6ts. His 

 fucceffors refide at Cabul\ he has an army of two hundred 

 thoufand men, once clothed with Britifh manufacftures, which 

 were fent up the hidus, and thence to Cabulhy the lefTer river. 



Candabar is a city of vaft ftrength, by nature as well as art, 

 being feated amidft fens and rocks. The Governor, Hojein Khan, 

 defended it eighteen months againft all the attacks of Kouli 

 Khan. At length, reduced to extremity, he fallied out at the head 

 of his inen, and fell, bravely fighting in defence of his country! 



Candabar and Cabiil were confidered of high im2:)ort:ance in 

 a political light. The firft was efteemed the gate of India in 

 refpevSt to PerJIa, and Cabul that in refpedl to Tartary, and 

 both were in the middle ages the great emporia for Indiatt goods, 

 which were tranfported into Weftern tartary, and from thence 

 by the Cajpian and Euxine feas to Conjlantinopky and from 

 that city to all parts of Europe. Candabar was the magazine of 

 the Indian and Perjian goods, and Cabul of the fpices. They 

 were conveyed in caravans, north-weftwards, to the famous city 

 of Samarcand, in Lat. 40° N. and from thence the goods were 

 put in boats, and fent down into the Oxus or Amu, which falls 

 into the Cafpian fea, as I have before related, and there Qiipped 

 for their different deftinations ; thofe for Rujfia, up the Volga ; 

 thofe for Conjlantinople, up the river Cyrus, the modern Kur, 



which 



