﻿XVII. 



ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF NEPAL, 



BY FATHER GIUSEPPE, 

 Prefect of the Roman Mission. 



COMMUNICATED BY JOHN SHOR.E, ESQ_. 



THE kingdom of 'Nepal is situated to the north- 

 east of Patna, at the distance of ten or eleven 

 days journey from that city. The common road to it 

 lies through the kingdom of Macwartyur ; but the mis- 

 sionaries and many other persons enter it on the Bett'ta 

 quarter. Within the distance of four days journey 

 from Nepal the read is good in the plains of Hin- 

 dustan, but in the mountains it is bad, narrow, and 

 dangerous. At the foot of the hills the country is 

 called lerlam; and there the air is very unwholesome 

 from the middle of March to the middle of Novem- 

 ber ; and people in their passage catch a disorder, 

 called in the language of that country AuJ, which is 

 a putrid fever, and of which the generality of people 

 who are attacked with it die in a few days; but on 

 the plains there is no apprehension of it. Although 

 the road be very narrrow and inconvenient for three 

 or four days at the pasEes of the hills, where it is ne- 

 cessary to cross and recrcss the river moie than fifty 

 times, yet, on reaching the interior mountain before 

 you descend, you have an agreeable prospect of the 

 extensive plain of Nepal, resembling an amphitheatre 

 covered with populous towns and villages : the cir- 

 cumterer.ee of the plain is about 200 a little 



irregular, and surrounded by hills on all sides, so that 

 no person can enter or come out of it witho-jt passing 

 the mountains. 



