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nth of May\ on the 19th, part of the army made the event- 

 ful paffage over the 'Jumna in boats, covered by twelve two 

 pounders, and two placed on the weftern heights of the river, 

 oppofite to the city and fort of Calpee or Culpee, In this city 

 are numbers of tombs, fays the Ayeen^ ii. p. 47, of great per- 

 fonages; it had its own princes tributary to Debli. Two thou- 

 fand Mahratta horfe made a fliew of oppofition, but were foon 

 difperfed by the artillery. After fome farther flight refiftance, 

 the fort and town, abandoned by the garrifon and inhabitants, 

 fell into our hands. On May the 27th, June 2d and 3d, the 

 whole paffage was efFedted. The commander of the Mahratta 

 force in this part was Gungadur Punty who had orders from 

 Poonab to nfe all his efforts to obilruCt the progrefs of the 

 EngHJJj, in which his brother Ballagee^ who had a diftriift far- 

 ther to the weft, w-as to affift. 



The march from Culpee w^as attended with the utmoft diffi- 

 culty, through narrow roads, and amidft hillocks of Conkar. Conkar. 

 This fubftance feems to me a genuine lava. The hillocks rife 

 to a confiderable height, are moft rude and irregular, and of 

 moft grotefque appearances, compofed of fcoria, exa<ftly refem- 

 bling the flags flung out of iron furnaces ; they muft have been 

 vulcanic, and thefe the extincl; vulcanos. I have been told that 

 earthquakes have been felt but rarely in Hindoojlan^ which 

 fhews that vulcanic fury has been long exhaulfed. 



The heats at this time were dreadful. Numbers of Sepovs Dreadfl'l 



-' Heats. 



were ftrvtck dead by them. Captain Craufurd^ an ofncer of dif- 

 tinguiflied merit, fell a victim to the heat. Dogs and other ani- 

 mals funk under it. To add to the calamity every well had 



been 



