"أسفار في بلوشستان والسند؛ مع تقرير جغرافي وتاريخي لهذين البلدين، وخريطة." [‎٣‎٢‎١] (٤٧٦/٣٦٣)

HISTORY OF BELOOCHISTAN. 32I
tliey are seldom known to be fatal to life, they destroy every symptom
of vegetation, and will, even after dusk, scorch the skin in a most
painful manner. Mukran is considered by the people of the ad
joining countries to be peculiary unhealthy, except on the immediate
poast, where the atmosphere is tempered by the sea breezes. To
the European constitution, it has, even there, been esteemed ex-
tremely prejudicial, as was proved (in the only instance I have heard
of) by the late and much regretted Captain Grant, of the Bengal mili
tary service, who was about three months in this province, while
acting under the orders of Brigadier-General Malcolm, and quitted
it in a state of extreme bad health. The small province of Lus is
reputed to be an exception to the general insalubrity of this division
of beloochistan ; and it is a very extraordinary fact, that the range
of mountains that separate it from Mukran, has also drawn a grand
line of distinction between their natives, in manners, customs, and
appearance. The Kohistan, or that division of Beloochistan, lyino- to
the westward of the sandy desert, being of a mountainous nature,
resembles in climate the provinces of Sarawan and Jhalawan, unless
that it is much milder, and consequently healthier. The seasons
heie, aie like those of Mukran; but the rains, in June and July,
which are always regular in that province, are here often partial!
and at other times so heavy as to destroy the crop ; such was the
case in 1809, and a famine succeeded, while in Sarawan, the same
calamity occurred from drought.
In Kutch Gundava, the climate is oppressively hot through-
out the summer, and during the winter it continues so warm
that this province is resorted to by all the chiefs and inhabitants
(who can afford the expence) of the provinces of Sarawan and
Jhalawan.
I am not prepared to offer any detailed observations on the soil
of Beloochistan, which, in fact, is a subject peculiarly devoid of
variety or interest. It generally appears to be exceedingly stony;
and in the provinces of Sarawan, Jhalawan, Lus, and Mukran.
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