DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY. 9 



protection, and although they have land for 

 nothing, as well as an allowance from the 

 Rajah, they get much more by presents from 

 people passing on the road . There are four 

 ghauts to be passed, first the Chittro, then 

 the Dungy e : both of which you ascend, the 

 next are the Kutkumsandy and Kendy, by 

 them you descend into the low country. The 

 distance from each is nearly the same, and the 

 average to the best of my recollection is about 

 twenty two Miles. From this delineation of 

 the features of the country we may clearly 

 judge how great is the improbability that the 

 race of tigers should ever be annihilated. 



t 

 To pass the different rivers on the new road 



from Calcutta to Sheherghautty, there are no 

 boats at any of the ferries, excepting at the 

 Damoodah river. All the other rivers are 

 dry in the hot and cold seasons, and any 

 boat would be destroyed from one rainy sea- 

 son to another by the heat of the weather. 



