1840.] on the Tenasserim Provinces, fyc. 189 



4. That it possesses, besides, great inducements to men of 

 capital to employ their money productively here ; the timber 

 forests, the tin, iron, and coal mines, besides other spontaneous 

 productions of nature, being inexhaustible riches of value. 



5. That mercantile speculations cannot be remunerating at 

 present, there being scarcely any demand for foreign produce. 



6. That the situation of the country is such, as to point it 

 out as the commercial high road in the north between China ; 

 and in the south, between Siam and British India. 



Note. — The MS. from which this valuable report was printed abounds 

 with copyist's errors, on which it has been sometimes impossible to ven- 

 ture even a conjectural correction. _ 



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Memoir on the Climate, Soil, Produce, and Husbandry of Afghan- 

 istan and the neighbouring Countries. — By Lieut. Irwin. 1 

 PART IV. (Continued.) 

 Toree. 

 209. The climate is here milder. The chief products are rice 

 and mash. The lands are irrigated, the houses flat-roofed; timber, 

 fuel, and fodder are easily had. The chief live stock is goats, 

 and next, cows and buffaloes. The carriage is by mules, and the 

 natives carry rice and mash to Cabul from their own valley, as 

 also salt from the eastward. The cultivation is considerable, 

 and the villages Zeran and Koorman are long ones. 



Upper Bungush. 

 210. This country seems to correspond in most circum- 

 stances to that of Toree. The chief town is Honga, which has 

 400 houses. The country is strong, and is under its own chief, 

 whom the king seldom displaces. It yields good honey, and is 

 well wooded and watered. Rice is exported to Cabul, generally 

 by the road of Ghorbund. The vallies are well inhabited. But 

 little use is made of tents. 



1 Continued from p. 65, vol. ix. 



