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long but never severe winter at Peshawur is balanced by
a short but more than genial summer. Peshawur can
hold a record for heat during two or three months of the
year against almost any city in India. It is, as we have
before pointed out, along the north-west frontier and
under the border hills that the great heat record, vear

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after year, is registered. There is no hot weather in the
plains elsewhere to be compared to that of the plains of
the Punjab; and there is, at the same time, occasionally an
intense and searching cold. This inequality of temperature
 doubtless augments the tendency to fever generated
by the irrigated cultivation (and, we may add, the waterlogged
 cantonments) of the north-west, and tend to place