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side. From Chur-rraey to Binwarri, which was the nearest point 
towards its source which I visited, the stream is about a hundred 
yards broad, very swift, and violent. From about five miles lower 
down than Binwarri it becomes somewhat wider, but is just as rapid 
and violent as before, till it reaches Darwesh Khel, about three- 
quarters of a mile lower down than which, where the valley also 
opens out considerably, it becomes much broader, and divides into 
several branches, and so continues until it reaches Allah-ddandd in 
Lower Suwat, where the branches again unite. From thence the 
river becomes narrower, until it joins the Malizi river (the river of 
Panjkorah of the maps), near the village of Khwadar-zi, in the 
country of the Utman Khel. 
No gold is found in the river or its smaller tributaries, unless it be 
at their sources; and there are few or no trees on the river’s banks, 
in the whole of the lower parts of the Suwat valley, not a hundred 
altogether I should say, save in the smaller valleys running at right 
angles to it. Here and there, one or two may be seen, in fields near 
the banks, under which the peasants rest themselves, and take their 
food in the hottest part of the day. It is in the mountains, on the 
sides of the valley, that trees are numerous. 
The mountains on either side as seen from the broadest part of 
the valley constituting Lower Suwat are of different degrees of ele¬ 
vation. The first, or lower ranges, are of no great height, and of 
gentle ascent; and the second are rather more abrupt; and on these 
there are, comparatively, few trees, but much grass. The third or 
higher ranges appear like a wall; and that to the north is densely 
covered with pine forests, which are seen overtopping all. 
Firewood is scarce in the lower parts of the valley, and the dry 
dung of animals is used instead; but in those smaller valleys at right 
angles to, and opening out into that of Suwat, there are woods and 
thickets enough. There are no shrubs or wild trees, such as we call 
jungle in India, in any part of Lower Suwat, save in these smaller 
valleys, and in the higher ranges which I did not reach ; and there¬ 
fore I cannot speak confidently on that subject. 
The Suwat valley, not including the Kohistan north of Pfia, is, 
according to Shaykh Mali’s arrangement, divided into two parts, 
known as bar or Upper, and lar or Lower Suwat, which two divisions 
are thus defined. From Manyar to the village of Tutakan towards 
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