A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . ATTOCK Peters Ch \SauafKr/(«.^ •* I o 5 o ATTOCK !< Milelo 20 !ns ILWAY STATION Attock. [To/ace p. 246. ROUTE l6. PESHAWAR 247 267 m. Pabbi station. [18 m. fromhere is Cherat, , a hill canton-ment and sanatorium for Peshawar,4500 ft. above sea-level. The tem-perature seldom exceeds 90°, even inthe hottest season. A tonga runsbetween Pabbi and the foot of thehills, whence a bridle-path of about5 m. leads into Cherat.] 276 m. Peshawar City station. 278 m. Peshawar Cantonmentstation,* , lat. 34° i, ° 37 (97)400 inh


A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . ATTOCK Peters Ch \SauafKr/(«.^ •* I o 5 o ATTOCK !< Milelo 20 !ns ILWAY STATION Attock. [To/ace p. 246. ROUTE l6. PESHAWAR 247 267 m. Pabbi station. [18 m. fromhere is Cherat, , a hill canton-ment and sanatorium for Peshawar,4500 ft. above sea-level. The tem-perature seldom exceeds 90°, even inthe hottest season. A tonga runsbetween Pabbi and the foot of thehills, whence a bridle-path of about5 m. leads into Cherat.] 276 m. Peshawar City station. 278 m. Peshawar Cantonmentstation,* , lat. 34° i, ° 37 (97)400 inhabitants, chieflyMohammedans). This place, theheadquarters of the first Army Divi-sion, the most important frontier cityof India, and the residence of theChief Commissioner of the Province, at present theHon. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir G. RoosKeppel, , is both interestingand picturesque. It stands upon aridge above the plain, stretchingtowards the mountains, on the leftbank of the Bara stream, 15^ of the junction of the Swa


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