ions sometimes stony, more often sandy.

Typha latifolia occurs in profusion along parts of Futtehabad nullah,
general features the same otherwise, AErua 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: while the more distant
surrounding villages look cheerful, and as clean as can be expected: the
appearances immediately around the chief towns are always bad. To what
is this owing? is it to their being more completely under the thumb of a
rapacious governor? to the insecurity of property, or to defect in the
laws? or to all these causes together?

At Cabul it was just the same, particularly on the Peshawur side, where
stagnant pools, half destroyed mosques, and mutilated trees present a
total contrast to the smiling valley of Kilah-i-Kajee.

At Shikarpore the same.

The most common fruit tree in the gardens here is a sweet lime: grapes
are brought in from the villages of Sofaid-Koh, they are the same sort as
those at Gundamuck: Narcissus, Rosa, Cerasi sp., Mirabilis, stock,
Cupressus, mulberry also in gardens, _Bheir_ of waste places, Salsola,
Artemisiae, two or three: Kochia villosa, Peganum, AErua, Croton of
Candahar, Ricinus, _Joussa_ of wet places, Lippia, Typha latifolia,
angustif., Azolla, Riccia, Cyperaceae, several Lythrarieae, Potamogeton,
three species. The fish here will not take a fly, and the bottoms are
too foul and stony for worm-fishing, the largest sort of fish is somewhat
like a Barbel. Jackdaws and Corvus, alter atratus, dorso ventre griseo:
very few quails. _Furas_ common.

_27th_.--To Ali-Baghan, distance six and a half miles, road winding,
generally good: after it crossed the dry bed of the nullah, it then
becomes rather undulated extending over raviny ground; it then crosses
the broad bed of the stream, in which there are swarms of bulrushes, then
the same sort of sandy ground leads to camp, which is near the village
Ali-Baghan.

The river her