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Remarks. 



ravans of laden mules are usually from 

 sixteen or eighteen days between Herat 

 and Candahar. The country is occupied 

 by pastoral tribes, chiefly of the Noorzye, 

 Atchikzye and Barukzye branches of the 

 Dooranee Affghans. They are possessed of 

 numerous flocks and herds, and in the vi- 

 cinity of their khails or encampments, they 

 raise a sufficiency of grain for their own con- 

 sumption. These khails, which generally 

 consist of from fifteen to fifty tents, are 

 scattered over the face of the country, and 

 as they are usually at some distance from 

 the road, it is impossible for a mere traveller 

 even to make a rough guess at the extent 

 of population, or the amount of the re- 

 sources of the country. 



To the South of the route above describ- 

 ed, is another which passes through Bakwa, 

 and which was followed by Forster in 17#3, 

 since which time I believe no European 

 has travelled it. The Southern, or Dilaram 

 road, as it is usually called, is described as 

 being perfectly level, and not more than 

 forty or fifty miles longer than the North- 

 ern or more direct one ; but there is a 

 scarcity of water on it, some of the halting 

 places being upwards of thirty miles apart. 

 It is however travelled by caravans and 

 horsemen, and for an army it would have 

 the advantage of passing within a short 

 distance of Furrah and Subzawaur, from 

 which places supplies almost to any extent 

 are procurable. 



The city of Candahar is of an oblong shape, the length, North and 

 South, being about 2,000, and the breadth 1,600 yards. The city is 

 enclosed by a mud wall with circular bastions at regular intervals. 

 The height of the walls may be about thirty feet, the ditch is dry, and 

 from ten to sixteen feet deep, and fifteen broad, in some places less. A 



