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'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.' [‎50] (63/314)

The record is made up of 1 volume (297 pages). It was created in 1798. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
On the 14th, at Pefhour, four coffes, a large, populous and
opulent city, governed, with the dependant diftricts, by an Af
ghan officer, who remits to the capital a revenue of feven lacks
of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. . The road from the Indus to Pefhour, has nearly a weft
and by fouth direction; and the country to Akora is fandy and
interfperfed with ftones; from thence to Pefhour, are feen many
trafts of cultivation. The city of Pefhour was founded by the
great Acbar, who feeing, it is faid, the Afghans averfe from
dwelling in towns and the occupations of commerce, encouraged
the inhabitants of the Punjab, Mahometans, and Hindoos, to refort
to his new fettlement, where their defcendants have greatly multi
plied. From its well chofen pofition, which unites, by a commer
cial chain, Perfia and Afghaniftan with India, Pefhour has become
an important mart, and the refidence of wealthy merchants; efpe-
cially of the fhaul dealers, many of whom difliking the dangerous
and tedious route of Kafhmire, are here enabled to make their
purchafes at a moderate advance on the firft coft. I found a
fmall fociety of Jews at Pefhour, living at their eafe, and in the
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enjoyment of an unreferved protection.
The heat of Pefhour feerned to me more intenfe, than that of
any country I have vifited in the upper parts of India. Other
places may be warm; hot winds blowing over trails of fand> may
drive us under the fhelter of a wetted fkreen j but at Pefhour, the
atmofphere in the fummer folftice, becomes almoft inflammable.
Yet it muft be noticed, it favour of its falubrity, even in this
torrid

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A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.

Publication details: printed for R Faulder, New Bond-Street, London. 1798.

Physical Description: Quarto.

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