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sheep. A large road leading off to the south-west from the summit 

 is seen ; from this our road is well-marked. 



29th. — Halted : every tillable spot is made use of about Yonutt, 

 where there is^a fort with forty families. The crops are chiefly wheat 

 and a four-awned barley, the grain is fine though scanty, and the 

 plants are of stunted growth. Ravens the same, round-tailed eagle as 

 at Urghundee, and Percnopterus, wagtails, three kinds of Conirostres, 

 and an Alauda are found here, one or two Sylvias. The sward about 

 this place is abundant, affords good pasturage for a few horses, and 

 water is plentiful. This sward is chiefly occupied by a Leguminous 

 Caraganoid shrub, rather thorny, and not unlike some species of 

 Barberry in habit, this is abundant, and is first met with in the ravines 

 beyond the Oonnoo pass, Cyperacese, viz. 2-3, Carices, small grasses, 

 Leontodon, Astragaloid cserulens, Trifolium album, Composita corona, 

 Cnicus acaulis, and Gentiana pusilla, compose the sward chiefly ; 

 in the drier parts of it there is a very fine Carduacea, which appears 

 very local. 



The hills about are all either clay slate, pure slate, or micaceous 

 slate, the strata generally vertical. 



Descended the ravine which the rivulet passes down, to where it 

 joins the Helmund, the hills bounding it are of no great height, 

 but the slips are sometimes bold. The Helmund runs between 

 rocky cliffs, its bed not much broader than the stream, the water is 

 clear, rapid, and the column considerable. 



This gorge is picturesque, the sides being generally precipitous. 



The plants of these hills are, Umbelliferse very common, Statice 

 2, Carduacea, Ephedra, Labiatae of Karabagh vel similia, Arena- 

 rioid out of flower in the crevices, a large Mattheoloid, Leucades, 

 Dianthoides foliis undulatis, Artemisise two or three, one a peculiar 

 one, No. — a shrubby Astragalus, stunted scraggy Polanisia of Cabul ? 

 Campanula of Karabagh in the bed of the stream, Cnicus of Kot-i- 

 Ashruf, and Salvia are excessively common, Artemisia pyramidalis, 

 two or three : mosses occur on the banks, and several Gramineas, 

 see Catalogue 1,005, etc. Cnicus alius, Verbascum. 

 Hence Kohi-Baba is finely seen. 



Yonutt. 



Lead ore, 

 Siah-Sung. 



Water abundant in all ravines, 



and where water occurs there is green . 



sward, fire-wood, as usual deficient. 



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