﻿62 NARRATIVE OF A ROUtE 



Rajah's country is near this place, intermixed with 

 the Company's Territory;* and the Purgunnah of 

 Agowry proje6ls here fo as to include the village of 

 Aumrye. We encamped near the old fite of the vil- 

 lage, inwhich'we faw the remains of an aqueduct, that 

 had formerly conveyed water, from a fall in an ad- 

 joining rivulet, to the village; but was now covered 

 \uth long grafs and buflies. 



Feb. 5th. Having halted the preceding day at 

 Aumrye^ we continued our route through a wilder- 

 nefs, continually afcending and defcending over 

 little hills. The froft, which had now continued fix 

 days, having blighted the leaves on the trees, my 

 camels were confequently diflrefled for forage, and 

 there was nothing to offer the cattle, but a kind of 

 long grafs, t which being rank, they ate but fparingly 

 of it. Our march this day terminated at Dar Nulla, 

 a rivulet of clear water, and we encamped in the 

 jungle. I had obferved, in the courfe of the journey, 

 leveral Saul trees, which the hill people had tapped 

 for the refm they contain. A tribe, called Karrvars, 

 are faid to inhabit thefe hills. They had fhifted the 

 fite of the village of Darr, about two miles to the 

 eallward, for retirement. I was likewife informed of 

 two iron mines which are fituated about two cof> to 

 the eaftward of this place. 



Feb. 6th. After proceeding about three miles 

 'through a thick foreft, we croffed the Joogamahal 

 Hills; the afcents and defcents over which were fre- 

 quent and rugged. We encamped this day on the 

 banks of the Giittaun, which was the largelt river I had 

 met with fmce eroding the Soane. The bed of it was 

 full of the fineft blue and red flate ; and a ilream 



perfeclly 



* To ibofe who are convcrfant with Itidisn Geography, or have ever 

 infpefted a map in which the boundaries are particularly laid down between 

 the territories of the feveral powers, this will not appear extraordinaiy. 



+ This grafs appeared to be of the fame kind which I had feen \n the " 

 lAvJore country ; it has a Urong aromatic Imell, is fomewhat pnckly, and 

 grows very tall. 



