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and as it is equivalent to such an expression as _Western_ or _Eastern Highlander_, rather than to names so specific as _Campbell_ or _MacDonald_, it may be excluded from the true Afghan affiliations. With this deduction, however, the classification is sufficiently complex; besides which, it is, probably, much more systematic on paper than in reality. This, however, can only be indicated. The valley of Peshawar is the valley of the _Guggiani_, and _Mahomed-zye_ Afghans. The parts round it belong to the _Eusof-zye_, the _Otman-khail_, the _Turcolani_, the _Momunds_, and the _Khyberi_ of the Khyber Range and Pass. These last fall into the _Afridi_, the _Shainwari_, and the _Uruk-zye_. Their country is chiefly to the north of the Salt Range. The river Kurum gives us the two valleys of Dowr and Bunnu[50]--the _Bunnuchi_ being as pre-eminently a mixed, as the mountaineers around them--the _Vizeri_--are a pure branch. These, and others, appear to belong to the great _Khuttuk_ division. The _south_-eastern Afghans are called _Lohani_; and, as a proof of this designation being of the same geographico-political character as _Berdurani_, the Khuttuk Afghans are divided between the two sections; at least the particular Khuttuks called _Murwuti_ are mentioned as Lohani, though the Khuttuk class in general is placed in the Berdurani branch. The chief Lohani Afghans are the _Shirani_ near the Tukt-i-Soliman mountain, and the _Storiani_ (_Storeeanees_, _Oosteraunees_) conterminous with the most northern of the Biluch. Of these the Bugti and Murri are the chief populations of the frontier; whilst the _Nutkani_, _Kusrani_, _Lund_, _Lughari_, _Gurkhari_, _Mudari_, and others, help to fill up the Muckelwand (or the parts immediately along the course of the Indus), and the Biluch portions of Multan. _The Brahui._--The Brahui, with whom it has been stated that the Biluch are intermixed, are pastoral tribes, with a coarser physiognomy, and a stouter make than their neighbours. Their language also is different. A specimen of it may be found amongst the well-known and important vocabularies of Lieutenant Leach; and this forms the subject of a memoir of no less a scholar than Lassen. Without placing it, he remarks that the numerals are _South_-Indian (or Tamulian) rather than aught else. He might have said more. The Brahui is a remarkable and unexplained branch of the Tamul; but whether it be of late introduction or indigenous o
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