1840.] Lieut. Irwin's Memoir of Afghanistan. 191 



Foormul. 



213. This is a small district, but has been mentioned in his- 

 tory^ and has found a place in maps already existing. It is situa- 

 ted near the junction of the Jadran range with the range of 

 32^°. It is drained to the eastward into the Koorm, whereas 

 the country called Zoormul, which lies west or north-west of it, 

 composes part of the table land of Ghuznee, and is drained 

 south or west. The inhabitants of Foormul speak Persian, and 

 reckon themselves 4000 families. The chief town or village is 

 called Orgun, and may have 1000 families ; there is no other 

 village of any importance. The people subsist by tillage, and 

 also carry on a considerable trade, conveying salt and iron from 

 the eastward to Cabul. Their chief stock is perhaps cows and 

 goats ; and camels are the chief carriage. Their hills abounding 

 in pine, timber and fuel are easily procurable. Their houses are 

 flat roofed. They raise quantities of good apples, and sell a 

 small quantity of grain to their eastern neighbours, the Wuzee- 

 rees.* 



The chief products are wheat and barley, and they raise a 

 little maize. 



Kohat. 

 214. This is an agricultural country, and the two crops are 

 probably equal. The chief products are rice and wheat ; some 

 provisions are exported to Peshawur. The lands are commonly 

 irrigated, and that chiefly from springs. The wheat and barley 

 are autumn sown. For fuel they burn olive and shrubs, and 

 timber is procured from Upper Bungush. The houses are flat 

 roofed ; cows are the chief stock, and camels the chief carriage. 

 The inhabitants drink chiefly from springs. Kohat may have 

 5000 inhabitants. The villages are small, and on a given surface 

 the populousness of their districts is less than that of Peshawur. 

 At Kohat they cultivate grapes, figs, and mulberries, and but little 

 other fruit; the perfume they extract from that species of the 

 willow called Bedi mookh, is much esteemed. 



* These live in a rugged country, and derive their subsistence from 

 tillage and from flocks of goats. 



