'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎35] (168/458)

ugwe and fc
there inter,
rap waspitij
it is generallj
\ mile or a mi
f were situatsl
ch were burnt,
i-i-Paeeti, aol
1 half way uf
•li is known is
ree to fouri
three firsts
ndeil by ^
jh e number d
less than 5,#
ON THE PROVINCE OP PESHAW An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 0 R. 35
Ousmankhail, Burmuwull, and the villages situated in the Pullai valley
before mentioned, held by different tribes of the Eusafzais ; and Kassa-
mai Kalloo, Panai, Deerai, Katlung, Chirchor, Lundyekhurr, Meeah
Issak, Hallur, Dundeah, Shimunzai Gfuzr, and Matah, the whole of
which are inhabited by Khuttuks, whose villages are mostly in the
Lundye Khurr valley.
On the 16th December, we reached the small and miserable village
of Suyedabad, inhabited by about 100 Suyeds; it belongs to the village
of Hamzah Khan, which is distant from Suyedabad eight miles. The
country round about this place is flat, but little cultivated, and the
villages are at great distances from each other, except in the neigh
bourhood of the mountains, the little retired valleys of which the
Eusufzais seem to prefer for the sites of their hamlets.
To tlie west of Suyedabad, and about a mile distant, is a range of
hills, rising abruptly from the plain to the height of six hundred feet or
more. ,It is named Bihee, after one of the sons of Baja Seetah, who
held Peshawur previous to the conquest of the Province by Mahmood,
the GUiuznevede. Bihee held the government of this part of the
country, as already mentioned.
The summits of this range are covered with ruins of variou s
sorts and dimensions; but they are so fresh and sharp in appearance,
that one would suppose they had not been erected for a year. The
Southern part, which is the highest, is covered with an extensive
ruin, called by the people of the country the “ Takht” or “ Throne
of Bihee.” About the centre of the hills to the West, there are the
rums of a Temple, or something of the kind, on a very large scale; and
the remains of a great number of pillars, of a curious shape, and
hollow inside: the place was overgrown with bushes and weeds. The
stone of which all the ruins are constructed, is of a bright yellow
colour, soft, smooth to the touch, and breaks into flakes. The blocks
f stone are merely squared on the inside and outside, the interstices
eing filled up with the same stone; but so exquisitely, that it would
a most lead one to imagine that the stone had been used in a melted
state, and had turned into stone, exact in appearance to the other
oc s. From what I have mentioned respecting the blocks of stone
ein 0 merely squared inside and outside, it must not be imagined, for
moment, that these buildings were either roughly or clumsily
eons ructed, for the workmanship is beautiful; and the whole seems