﻿^8 NARRATIVE OF A ROUTE 



nah bearing the fame name. Its fortifications were 

 erefted by a Rajah called Suckut Sing, about four 

 centuries and a half ago. ^ 



On the 29th, our road led through the town and 

 works of SuBafghur^ beyond which we afcended a 

 fteep and rocky pafs, called Barrah Gaut. When 

 arrived at the top of it, I found the hills covered 

 with a thick foreft. On my right hand, for more 

 than a mile, the Jwr^o continued its courfe, nearly 

 parallel to the road. There is a coniiderable fall in 

 it, called by the natives, Scfdanaut Jwrna^ from which 

 the fource of the river cannot be far diftant; but the 

 fall is onjy in aftion during the rainy feafon. Our 

 road now lay through woods, and rocky defiles, 

 until we approached to Rajeghur, where our journey 

 for this day terminated. Near this place were fe- 

 veral fmalier villages, but few figns of cultivation ; 

 and the general appearance of the country feemed to 

 prognofticate a very wild region before us. There 

 were no hills in fight, but we were on very elevated 

 land ; for we had afcended at leafl 300 yards, with- 

 out meeting with any confideralJe defcent. Nothing 

 worthy of remark prcfcnted itfelf at this village, 

 but the ruins of an old fort, which had been built 

 by a Zemeendar^ who proving refratlory in the days 

 of BuLWANT ■ S1NG5* it had been in confequence de- 

 ilroyed. 



JAN. 30th. My journey continued about nine 

 miles to a little village called Newary Pindarya^ and, 

 as yeflerday, through a thick foreft. We encamped 

 at a tank and grove of Moioah trees, where abundance 

 pf game appeared in every direction around us; and 

 the devailation which was vifible in the crops, evi- 

 dently fiicwed how much the peafants had I'uffcred 

 from the incuriions of numerous herds of wild bealls 

 from the neighbouring thickets. 



Jan. 



* Bidrv2-it 5/7/^ was ihe faiher oiChcyt: Sing, the late Rajali o^ Benares. 



