s to Persia; the roots are occasionally dug up
after two years, but the better practise is to allow them five to seven:
the price is six Hindostanee maunds for a rupee. The herb is used for
camel fodder. The Affghan name is _Dlwurrung_.

The common Artemisia of this place is called _Turk_; the camels are not
so fond of it, as they were of the Sinab and Quettah sort; perhaps this
is due to their preferring Joussa, which is found in abundance.

The carrot is called _Zurduk_; it is dug in the cold months, and sown in
July; three seers are sold for a pice: both men and cattle use it.

_Turbooj_, (watermelon,) ripens in June; it is not watered after
springing up; four seers are sold for a pice. But I have not seen much
of this fruit.

The wheat is watered according to the quality of the soil, the better the
soil the less water is required, and this varies from four to eight
repetitions of water. _Jhow_ requires two waterings less. Wheat is
considered dear if less than one maund is sold for the rupee. One year
ago, three maunds of barley, and four of wheat were sold for a rupee.

Iris odora, _Soosumbur_; (the two kinds, and _Datura_ has the same name)
is indigenous.

The timber trees, or rather trees not producing fruit, and which the
_Moolla_ thinks very lightly of, are the _Chenar_, (plane), _Pudda_,
(Poplar?), Baid, _Sofaida_.

The fig trees are often planted in rows, they are very umbrageous, and
look very healthy. These, and the mulberry, are the most common; next
are the bullace and damson. Neither are worth introducing to India, nor
have I seen any thing yet in the country that is so.

It is certainly the interest of the inhabitants to keep the army here as
long as our commissariat places so many rupees in their hands. It may
indeed be questionable whether with an overpowering army, the rates paid
for grain and other supplies for the troops should not be established by
authority rather than advancing money for grain at exorbitant rates, when
the crops are entirely within the command of foraging parties. _Atta_
now sells at two and three-quarter seers the rupee, a mere nominal fall,
for the dealers will only give fifteen annas for a Company's rupee.

There is a curious _hazy_ appearance of the atmosphere over the city in
the evening, occasioned by fine dusty particles from cattle, suspended in
air; which, from their fineness, are long in subsiding.

This curious hazy weather increases daily, yesterda