BALUCHISTAN.
36 during winter
months is
is
exceedingly severe, snow lying on the ground for two
at a time,
even in the
summer the heat Makran are said
while in
fertile valleys,
overpowering on the lower grounds.
Some
parts of
In February and IMarch a good which the dry season commences and lasts till general is exceedingly stony. In the Province
to be the hottest localities in Asia.
deal of rain
falls,
after
September.
The
soil in
and loamy, and so productive, more the supply of the whole of Baluchistan water, how-
of Kachh-Gandava, however, that,
it is
said,
were
than sufficient for
it
all
it
rich
is
properly cultivated, the crops would be
when
the
copper, lead, iron,
tin,
ever, is very scarce, except at certain seasons of the year,
floods descend from the
Gold,
hills.
silver,
antimony, brimstone, alum, sal-ammoniac, and
many kinds
of mineral
found in various parts of the country. The precious metals have only been discovered in working for iron and lead, in mines near the town of Nal, about 150 miles south-south-west The manufactures of Baluchistan are unimportant, being of Khelat. confined to a few matchlocks and other arms at Khelat. The gardens and orchards in the vicinity of the towns produce many sorts of fruit, which are sold at a moderate rate, such as apricots, peaches, grapes,
and
salts,
almonds, quinces,
saltpetre, are
pistachio figs,
-
apples,
nuts,
plums,
pears,
currants,
cherries,
pomegranates, mulberries, plantains, melons, guavas,
etc.
grown in India are cultivated in the different ProMadder, vinces of Baluchistan, and there is abundance of vegetables. the latter oil-seeds, rice, tobacco, cotton, and indigo are also produced All kinds of grain
is
Great attention
considered superior to that of Bengal.
the culture of the date fruit in the Province of Makran. fish are
The domestic animals
caught in great quantities.
is
On
given to
the coast
of Baluch-
istan are horses, mules, asses, camels, buffaloes, cattle, sheep,
dogs,
and
cats, besides fowls
turkeys, nor ducks.
The
and pigeons
goats,
but there are neither geese,
wild animals are tigers, leopards, hyenas,
wolves, jackals, tiger-cats, wild dogs, foxes, hares, mongooses, mountain goats, antelopes, vidrkhor
{Capra
viegaceros), ibex
{Capra cegagms), wild
Of birds there are sheep or gudd {Ovis cycloceros), wild asses, etc. European and Central Asian species, and also a few Indian. Tcna?is.
—The principal towns
in Baluchistan are as follows
the capital of the whole country
wan
Kozdar, of Jhalawan
many
— Khelat,
Mastang, of the Province of Sara-
Bela, of Bela
Makran
Kej, of
Kachh-Gandava; Dadar and Gandava, towns
in
Bagh, of
the last-mentioned
Province; Nushki, Sarawan, Pasni, Dera, Sonmiani, and Quetta. The inferior towns are Sohrab, Shah Godar, Chihgeh, Diz, Tump, Sami,
Kharan, and Zehri-Gat. Khelat fonns the subject of a separate
article
but as the dimen-
work involve a considerable interval between the publication of the earlier and later volumes, it may here be convenient to give sions of this
