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CHAPTER VII.
CLIMATE AND SOIL OF BELOOCHISTAN IN GENERAL. SEASONS OF THE FIRST
DIVISION. TEMPERATURE. PERIODICAL RAINS AND WINDS. — SALUBRITY.
SEASONS OF THE SECOND DIVISION OF BELOOCHISTAN. — HOW DISTIN
GUISHED. — THEIR CONTINUANCE. — TEMPERATURE. — WINDS. — INSALU-
BRir\ OF THE PROVINCE OF MUKRAN. LUS AN EXCEPTION TO THIS.
THE KOHISTAN, OR FOURTH DIVISION OF BELOOCHISTAN. ITS CLIMATE
LIKE THAT OF THE FIRST DIVISION. MILDER AND HEALTHIER. SEASONS.
RAINS. KUTCH GUNDAVA, OR THE THIRD DIVISION OF BELOOCHIS
TAN. CLIMATE. SOIL OF BELOOCHISTAN. — GENERALLY ACKNOWLEDGED
TO BE STONY. — WITH THE EXCEPTION OF KUTCH GUNDAVA. — MINERAL
PRODUCTIONS OF THIS KINGDOM. — METHOD OF SMELTING THE ORE. FRUITS.
7 GRAINS. MADDER. COTTON. INDIGO. AGRICULTURAL REMARKS.
DETAIL OF THE CULTURE OF MADDER. PRICE IT SELLS AT. OOSHPOOST,
OR CAMEL GRASS. HOW CULTIVATED. QUICK VEGETATION OF KUTCH
GUNDAVA, LUS, AND MUKRAN. DATE FRUIT PROCESS OF ITS CULTIVA
TION. THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF PRESERVING THE FRUIT. VARIETIES
OF IT. — GREAT VALUE JUSTLY PLACED ON IT BY THE NATIVES. TIMBER
OF BELOOCHISTAN. ENUMERATION OF DOMESTIC AND WILD ANIMALS.
VERMIN AND REPTILES. FISH. THE HORSE. ASS. MULE. BLACK
CATTLE. SHEEP. GOATS. — CAMEL. DROMEDARY. SHEPHERDS* DOGS«
■ GREYHOUNDS. WILD DOGS. — LION. — TIGER. HYENA. — WOLF. —
JACKALL. EAGLES AND HAWKS.
FT was once my intention to have inserted a few remarks on
the climate and soil of each division, under its particular head,
but doing so, I found, would have subjected me to the necessity of
repeating the same observations very frequently, and I therefore
Judged it better to include them all in a separate chapter. The
diversity of situation of the various provinces of Beloochistan, and
the consequent irregularities of climate and soil, will, however, fre-