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Indus, and at times flooded. The towns stand on high sites or are protected by embankments; but the villages scattered over the lowlands are exposed to See also:

ANNUAL

annual inundations, during which the See also:

PEOPLE

people abandon their grass-built huts, and take See also:

REFUGE

refuge on wooden platforms attached to each See also:

house. Throughout the See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather large herds of camels, belonging chiefly to the See also:

POVINDAH

Povindah merchants of See also:

AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan, graze upon the sandy See also:

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste. The district possesses hardly any distinct See also:

ANNALS (Annales, from annus, a year)

annals of its own, having always formed See also:

PART

part of Multan (q.v.).

The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1901 was 405,656, showing an increase of 6.4% in the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade, due to the See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal crops are See also:

wheat, See also:

PULSE

pulse, See also:

rice and See also:

INDIGO (earlier indico, from Lat. indicum, the Indian sub-stance or dye; the Sans. name was niti, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arab. al-nil, annil, gives " aniline ")

indigo. The most important domestic See also:

animal is the See also:

CAMEL (from the Arabic Djemal or the Heb. Gamal)

camel. The district is crossed by the North-Western railway, and the boundary See also:

rivers are navigable, besides furnishing numerous irrigation channels, originally constructed under native See also:

RULE

rule.

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