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add to my good fortune, an old friend, Sii- 

 Edward Campbell, one of his Aides-de-Camp, 

 volunteered to accompany me, and also 

 obtained leave. 



That day, and the greater part of the next, 

 were agreeably spent with Major Herbert, 

 the defender of Attock. I visited the fort, 

 which, built iipon a table land of rock, is 

 isolated by deep ravines, and might be ren- 

 dered almost impregnable. Kote Kangra 

 also enjoys a wide-spread celebrity, of rather 

 a singular nature, throughout the East ; it is 

 famed for its manufacture of noses, and is 

 resorted to by all whom the executioner, 

 accident, or disease may have deprived of 

 that ornamental featm-e. The method was 

 discovered by a famous surgeon, upon whom 

 one of the Emperors had bestowed Kote 

 Kangra as a jagheer, and the secret whereby 

 the new nose is taken and formed from the 

 skin of the forehead, has been handed down 

 from generation to generation, to the present 

 practitioners. Although the noses are made 

 to order, I believe that they cannot be made 



