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a small stream. Willows, mulberries, ashes. Two large pollards at 

 Futtehabad. 



The vegetation consists of Graminese in patches, JErua. Nerioides, 

 and Mudar. 



Sultanpore, is a village of some size, situated about a mile north 

 from the road, and contains many Hindoos. All villages here crowded 

 with highish two or three- storied houses, something like Shikarpore : 

 they are surrounded with gardens and mud walls, apricots, mulberries, 

 greengages, pomegranates in profusion ; the cultivation very rich as 

 yesterday, and there is an air of repose about the villages unusual in 

 this country. Tobacco. The rice-pounder or dekhee I observe is here 

 lifted by treading on it with the foot, as in Hindoostan. The country 

 hereabout, has the advantage of being well watered. Isain, Dolichos 

 sp. occurs. 



Trees as before : the plane flourishes, fine ones were seen growing 

 around a Hindoo Zearut, where there is a double spring of water with 

 a copious ebullition of gas. The temperature of this is said to be 

 hot in winter. Salsola common, Joussa, a curious Ericoid plant 

 was observed, Typha angustifolia, latifolia ceased since we left Gun- 

 damuck ; Isachne, Pulicaria, Epilobium, Sagittaria, Cyperacese, Mar- 

 silea ! Polygonum, Ranunculus sceleratus, Lythrum, Lemna, Alisma, 

 Menthoid, a Cuscuta common on cotton plants, as at Futtehabad, 

 several tropical grasses, Aristida, Poa, and Andropogon appear. 



Descent though almost un appreciable, yet amounts to 1,000 feet. 

 Bulbul and Parus common, as well as doves and ravens ; quails are 

 scarce. 



2\st. — To Jallalabad, eight and a half miles, the road keeping 

 along the southern edge of the valley, occasionally extending over 

 small undulations sometimes stony, more often sandy. 



Typha latifolia occurs in profusion along parts of Futtehabad 

 nullah, general features the same otherwise, iErua and Nerioid are 

 common on stony parts, and fewer coarse grasses. 



Cypresses in gardens, also khujoors. Starlings. 



The entrance to Jallalabad, or rather to its suburbs, presents the 

 usual desolate, disorderly appearance, of such places in this country ; 

 the ruined walls to the city ; the sandy barren soil, and the odious 

 looking low hills between it and the Sofaid-Koh, present as sad and 

 melancholy a picture as could well be met with. The same desolate, 

 disorderly, dirty appearance is to be met with in most Asiatic capitals, 

 particularly those that have been subjected to independent misrule : 



