4 DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY. 



All native troops are now sent by this route, but 

 European regiments still go by the old road, which 

 follows the course of the river Ganges, partly in 

 consequence of the great difficulty of procuring 

 supplies for them on the new tract, and partly for 

 the sake of the accommodation afforded to the sick 

 of transporting them by water. This new road, 

 for upwards of two hundred miles, from Bundbis- 

 sunpore to Sheherghautty, continues the whole 

 way through one of the wildest forest countries 

 imaginable. Captain Charles Rankin, and after 

 him his brothers, were allowed by government a 

 sum of money annually for keeping the road in 

 repair, and also a large sum for cutting down and 

 destroying the jungle, to the distance of fifty yards 

 on each side of it, without which, it would have 

 been dangerous in the extreme for any small body 

 of people to have traversed that road, the tigers 

 being so numerous. In Bundbissunpore there 

 are a greater number of villages, and of course 

 more cultivation, than in Rogonautpore, and in 

 Rogonautpore far more than in Ramghur ; the 

 first two countries, in comparison with the latter, 

 have but few hills, and less jungle and uneven 

 ground. 



The Ramghur Rajah's country consists almost 

 entirely of hills and dales, covered with jungle : 



