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and four Hindoo shops, seventy footmen and ten horsemen. There 

 is a ferry boat on the river, used by merchants who trade between the 

 Eesafzais and Peshawar. Two crops a year are produced of wheat, 

 barley, Indian corn, and cotton. The inhabitants are at enmity 

 with the Eesafzais regarding the pasturage of their herds on the plain 

 to the east. The river is to the west of the village in which there is 

 an island on which cattle are grazed. 



Three kos to the south is the village of Kheshkee, which is on the 

 river also, having a ferry boat. There are two kandees, one called 

 Bur kandee of Shekhs and Nujan khels, and the other kandee of 

 Panchtana. The former has 600 houses, under Nujan Afzal and 

 Nujan Ahmad Kheshkee. Panjtana has 1,700 houses and twenty- 

 five shops of Hindoos. Both hamlets could furnish 300 matchlock- 

 men, (260 foot and 40 horse.) It was formerly under Shahnawaz 

 Khan Mahammadzai. 



Between the two kandees there is an earthen mound on which are 

 Cafer ruins. Across the river to the west there is a bela, (island) 

 on which cattle are grazed. The river water is not available for culti- 

 vation. There are seventy wells in the village. The revenue is 6,000 

 rupees included in Hoshtnagar. To the N. E. there is a plain called 

 Mera, on which the plant called, in Persian Ushlan, and in Pushtoo 

 Sanari, which is burnt for ishkhar (potash,) which is exported in thou- 

 sands of kharwars by Khattak and Ormar merchants. It gives a 

 greater return for labour than cultivation of grain. The inhabitants 

 have 1000 cows, 700 buffaloes, 4000 sheep, and many asses, and are 

 chiefly traders. They were at enmity formerly with the men of 

 Noushera and the Eesafzais, i. e. before Runjeet Singh subdued the 

 country. 



It is three kos from Kheshkee to Noushera south-east. The chief 

 was formerly Shahnawaz Khan, son of Faiztalah Khan ; now Runjeet 

 Singh has given it to Sardar Saiyad Mahammad Khan. The head- 

 man is Mulla Ghulam Kadur, the Sardar's Naib. Its revenue is 6000 

 rupees. There are 6000 houses, and 120 of Hindoos, and 200 shops, 

 and 1000 matchlock men. The Parachahs are chiefly traders. The 

 river is to the west of the village. There is a ferry boat. 



'Round Noushera there are 1000 jarebs of watered land, and 20( 

 wells. 



