The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and KashmirDouie, James McCrone, Sir
History
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
Douie, James McCrone, Sir
India -- Description and travel; Jammu and Kashmir (India); North-west Frontier Province (Pakistan); Punjab (India)
wholly pleasant. But again it passes close to some quiet pretty stretch
of this same Kunhar. There are side glens, one of which opposite Naran
contains the beautiful Safarmulk Lake. Near the top of the main glen the
Lulusar Lake at a height of 11,167 feet and with an average depth of 150
feet is passed on the left. In the lower part of the glen much maize is
grown. As one ascends almost the last crop to be seen is a coarse barley
sown in June and reaped in August. Where the trees and the crops end the
rich grass pastures begin. Kagan covers between one-third and
one-fourth of the whole district. The Siran flows through the beautiful
Bhogarmang Glen, at the foot of which it receives from the west the
drainage of the Konsh Glen. Forcing its way through the rough Tanawal
hills, it leaves Feudal Tanawal and Badhnak on its right, and finally
after its junction with the Dor flows round the north of the Gandgarh
Range and joins the Indus below Torbela. The bare Gandgarh Hills run
south from Torbela parallel with the Indus. The Dor rises in the hills
to the south of Abbottabad and drains the Haripur plain. A range of
rough hills divides the Dor valley from that of the Haro, which again is
separated from Rawalpindi by the Khanpur Range. To the west of the Siran
the Unhar flows through Agror and Feudal Tanawal, and joins the Indus a
little above Amb. Irrigation cuts are taken from all these streams, and
the irrigated cultivation is often of a very high character. The best
cultivation of the district is in the Haripur plain and the much smaller
Orash and Pakhli plains and in the Haro valley. There is much
unirrigated cultivation in the first, and it is generally secure except
in the dry tract in the south-west traversed by the new railway from
Sarai Kala. The little Orash plain below Abbottabad is famous for its
maize and the Pakhli plain for its rice.
Feudal Tanawal is a very rough hilly country between the Siran on the
east and the Black Mountain and the river Indus on the west. It is the
appanage of the Khans of Amb and Phulra.
North of Feudal Tanawal is Agror. In 1891 the rights of the last Khan
were declared forfeit for abetment of raids by trans-bordermen.
There are fine forests in Hazara, but unfortunately the _deodar_ is
confined to the Kagan Glen and the Upper Siran. Nathiagali, the summer
headquarters of the Chief Commissioner, is in the Dungagali Range. The
Serai Kala-Srinagar railway will run through Hazara. There is a good
mule road from Murree to Abbottabad through the Galis.
2. _Tribal Territory_
[Illustration: Fig. 133. Sir George Roos Keppel.]
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