{"book":"adl0957","page":133,"text":"98\n\npleasant valley where the Kabul river spreads out a hundred\nyards or more into a broad rapid stream and transforms sandy\ntracts into oases, There are poplar,cypress, mulberry, ash, and\nwillow trees in Jalalabad, and their shade seem doubly deep be-\ncause of the brilliance of the sun on the bare rocks and hills to\nthe north and south.\n\nJalalabad is hot in summer, but its winters are quite\npleasant. At the foot of the Speen Ghar there are some fine\nhill-stations, where people flock during the hot season. Kaja,\nKhogyani, and Mamakhel may be especially mentioned in this\nconnection.\n\nOne of the richest districts of this province is Laghman\n(Lampaka of old). This fertile valley lies to the west of Jalal-\nabad city along the Kabul-Peshawar road. The Kabul river,\nthat has all along struggled through narrow gorges, here becomes\na broad clear stream, more than 50 yards wide.\n\nThe valley of Laghman is well-watered and must have\nalways been populous. From the north the snow-capped peaks\nof the Nuristan mountains (southern off-shoots of the Hindukush)\nlook down upon it, and among the forest clad valleys at the\nfoot of these peaks two important river systems take their rise—\nthe Alishang and Alingar, which, uniting, join the Kabul river\nin this flat plain, where each acre of land is extremely pro-\nductive.\n\nThe second valley of note is that of Kunar, which lies to\nthe north of Jalalabad, and beyond which is situated the most\nfascinating region of Afghanistan, known as Nuristan (the old\nKafiristan).\n\nThe Kunar valley is of exceptional interest for many\nreasons. The ancient road from Kabul (or Capisia) to India","chars":1626,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00133.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/133","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/133","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."}}