~Attock district.~--Though Attock is twice the size of Rawalpindi it has a smaller population. Nature has decreed that it should be sparsely peopled. The district stretches from the Salt Range on the south to the Hazara border on the north. It contains itself the fine Kalachitta range in the north, the small and barren Khairi Murat range in the centre, and a line of bare hills running parallel with the Indus in the west. That river forms the western boundary for 120 miles, dividing Attock from Peshawar and Kohat. It receives in the Attock district two tributaries, the Haro and the Soan. There are four _tahsils_, Attock, Fatehjang, Pindigheb, and Talagang. The northern _tahsil_ of Attock is most favoured by nature. It contains the Chach plain, part of which has a rich soil and valuable well irrigation, also on the Hazara border a small group of estates watered by cuts from the Haro. The south of the _tahsil_ is partly sandy and partly has a dry gritty or stony soil. Here the crops are very insecure. The rest of the district is a plateau. The northern part consists of the _tahsils_ of Fatehjang and Pindigheb drained by the Soan and its tributary the Sil. The southern is occupied by _tahsil_ Talagang, a rough plateau with deep ravines and torrents draining northwards into the Soan. In the valleys of the Sil and Soan some good crops are raised. The soil of the plateau is very shallow, and the rainfall being scanty the harvest is often dried up. The chief crops are wheat and _bajra_. Awans form the bulk of the agricultural population. [Sidenote: Area, 5395 sq. m. Cultd area, 1020 sq. m. Pop. 341,377; 88 p.c. M. Land Rev. Rs. 359,836 = L23,989.]