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III. 

 NARRATIVE of a ROUTE 



FROM 



CHUNARGHUR TO YERTNAGOODUM, 



IN THE 



ELLORE CIRCAR. 



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BY CAPTAIN J. T. BLUNT. 



HE Government having, in the year 1794, de- 



termined to employ me in exploring a route 



through that part of India which lies between BeraVy 

 Orijfa.) and the northern Circars, fome months ne- 

 ceffarily elapfed before the requifite Purzuannahs, 

 from the Nag fou7- Government, could.be obtained; 

 when, at length, after receiving my inftruftions, and 

 a party of a Jamadar and thirty Sepoys had been or- 

 dered to efcort me, I commenced this expedition. 



On the 28th of January, 1795, I left Chunarghur, 

 and dire6ling my courfe a little to the weftward, af- 

 cended the hills at Jurna gaut ; where I entered upon 

 a kind of table land, on which there. appeared but 

 little cultivation, and the few villages that occurred 

 were poor. We crofled the little river Jurgo, which 

 falls into the Ganges at a fliort diftance to the eaftward 

 of Chunarghur and then entered a thick foreft, which 

 continued as far as SuBafghur. At this place there is 

 a barrier for the defence of a pafs through the hills, 

 which confifts of a rampart with round towers at in- 

 tervals. The wall, befides including an -angle at the 

 bottom of the hills, is continued to the fummit of 

 them, on the fouth fide, where it terminates among 

 rocks and buflies. The weft end of the works is ter- 

 minated by a rocky precipice, and by the bed of the 

 Jurgo, which has here been conhderably deepened by 

 the torrents. Suclafghur is the head of a Pitrgun- 



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