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Title: The universal geography : the earth and its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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trast betweenthe naked slopes and the oases at the foot of the lulls that the marauding tribeslook on it as a sort of providential arrangement. Others, they say, havethe fertile lands, but we have the strength, that is, to plunder them. But the lack of variety in the vegetation and the absence of a rich foliage areat all events balanced by the excellent flavour and quality of most friiits andcereals, such as the walnut, apricot, peach, plum, almond and several kinds ofcorn. The pomegranates of Kandahar are pronounced by Ferrier to be the finestin the world; the wild vine of Kohistan yields a deKcious grape to a height of over6,000 feet on the slopes facing southwards; and the walnut, here a forest tree,attains colossal proportions, especially in the Upper Kuram vaUey, where the trunksometimes exceeds fifteen or sixteen feet in girth. Yegetation is naturally most vigorous in the well-watered region of the north-east. In the upland valleys of the Hindu-Kush and Lahori, as well as on the
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P3 i Mo 6H INHABITANTS OF AFGHANISTAN. 33 Sefid-Koli slopes, the goat browses on the tender sprouts down to a height of7,000 feet. The plantains growing on the terraces near the Paiwar Pass have acircumference of over 33 feet. The oak is elsewhere followed higher up suc-cessively by the deodar, yew, juniper and various species of conifers, one of whichflourishes on the Sefid-Koh at an altitude of 11,000 feet. Farther up nothing ismet except the stunted junipers and birch, which are succeeded by herbage andthe carex as far as the snow-line. In the Sulaiman-dagh the shrubs are of theHimalayan species, whereas the herbaceous plants are allied to those of the west;but in other respects both the Himalayan and Afghan floras have much in commonwith those of Europe. The date-palm grows only in Sistan, and the myrtle a littlefarther north in the Anardereh district. Nor is the Afghan fauna remarkable for many characteristic types. Thelower valleys near the Panjab are infested by the leopard, hy

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