{"book":"adl0957","page":118,"text":"87\n\nfrom the very foot of the mountains are scattered white-walled\nvillages, and it is there that one may find later in the same year\nsome of the fruits for which the country has acquired a world-\nwide fame.\n\nIn November a gentle haze rests in soft indecision upon the\ndust-coloured landscape—heavier and bluer over the low-lying\nfields, from which all vegetation has been lifted. It is a different\nworld now from the world of the spring—all utterly sad and dust-\nladen, but it is then that the strings of fruit-laden donkeys and\ntrucks make their way towards the city, where the shops are seen\npiled up from floor to the roof with these delicious fruits.\n\nBesides fruits, Koh Daman yields grains, cotton, tobacco\nand various kinds of vegetables. It is thickly studded with cast-\nles and decorated with gardens and vineyards. This delightful\ndistrict, full of clustering hamlets, has an invigorating climate.\nFew districts possess a town that can rival Istaliff perched at the\nfoot of the Paghman range. A small river runs through this\nbeautiful hamlet, and on either side of it are gardens, green, gay,\nand surpassingly lovely, where\n\n\"A million and million flowers\nThe fields and gardens adorn,\nAnd the purple iris scents the air,\nAs each fresh bloom is born\".\n\nIts water, even in the months of June and July, is so cold\nthat there is no need of icing it. The Takhat (Throne), where\npeople flock in hundreds on every holiday, is one of the finest\nbeauty spots of Koh Daman. Its magnificent spreading poplars\n(Panja Chinar) as they are called here, perhaps survivors of\nMughal days, throw broad shade on all sides, where a few hours'","chars":1634,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00118.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/118","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/118","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}