Correspondence. 



557 



Narnoul 14 miles north, sandy soil; the hills are some distance, but the 

 town must be built from them, and presents in every wall clay slate, mica 

 slate, quartz, limestone, gneiss, and granite, indifferently used. 16th. — 

 Nagul 10 miles north ditto. 17th. — Bhowanee 14 miles N. by E. the rock 

 is here generally quartz with a small portion of hornblende in it. 1 8th. — 

 Doodha 9 miles NNE. rock ditto. 19th.— Dadree 9 miles N. by E. i E. 

 same formation. 21st Munhiervo 10 miles, course NNW. light sandy 

 soil, no rock, country very level. 22d. — Burra Rawanee 8 miles, level 

 country, all same course NNW. \ W. Chota Bowanee, course NW. 

 soil more clayey. 24th. — Hansi, country the same, bearing rich crops 

 along the canals, with which the immediate neighbourhood is in- 

 tersected. 



The Thermometer in tent, highest 

 during the day and lowest during the 

 night, in the sun it sometimes rose to 

 101° not above 102°. It may fall a 

 degree or two lower than what I have 

 marked for night, as we march gene- 

 rally at 4 o'clock a. m. and it is then 

 at the lowest it has been during the 

 night, and certainly falls steadily until 

 daybreak at least, though on the whole 

 I would not allow above 30' difference 

 between 4 a. m. and the coldest time of 

 the morning. 



Date. 



Day. 



Night. 



Date. 



Day. 



Night. 



Oct. 



87o 



80o 



Nov. 







16 



92 



62 



1 



2 



92 

 91 



62 

 57 



17 



92 



62 



3 



94 



60 



18 



93 



62 



4 

 5 



92 



92 



59 

 58 



19 



96 



55 



6 



90 



52 



20 



95 



58 



7 

 8 



87 

 89 



54 

 64 



21 



95 



63 



9 



89 



58 



22 



95 



63 



10 

 11 



88 

 89 



58 

 52 



23 



95 



64 



12 



91 



53 



24 



96 



68 



13 

 14 



92 

 92 



54 

 54 



25 



95 



66 



15 



91 



54 



26 



94 



65 



16 

 17 



91 

 85 



57 

 55 



27 



95 



64 



18 



80 



55 



28 



94 



63 



19 



20 



87 



89 



54 

 54 



29 



94 



63 



21 



84 



51 



30 



93 



65 



22 

 23 



82 

 75 



60 

 55 



31 



93 



62 



24 



77 



51 



Extract of a letter from Capt. Thos. Hutton, dated Candahar, \2th Sep- 

 tember, 1840. 



This country (Afghanistan) I believe has hitherto been pronounced 

 destitute of zoological novelties ; believe it not, — there are forms well 

 worth the naturalist's attention, and I am preparing papers on several 

 interesting subjects; the want of my books of reference however is a 

 drawback to the completion of any at present. We have two species 

 of wild goat, to which, as I believe them to be undescribed, I have 

 assigned the names of " Capra cottaris," and " Capra megaceros." The 

 wild sheep is also most interesting, and I think will prove to be the 

 proper " Bearded Sheep" of Pennant. It is entirely distinct from the 



