﻿l(yi I>rARRATIVE OP A ROUTE 



H place, which I confidered as one of the greateft na^ 

 tural CLtriofities in Hmdoojian. 



TiTE only expedient that was now left, was to col- 

 \t&. as accurate an account of the place as poflible. In 

 this the Subadar readily affiftcd me, and lent me two 

 Pundits^ who had been there repeatedly, and whom 

 he defcribed as intelligent men, and capable of fati^- 

 fying my moft fanguine expeftations. They were 

 both Brahmens, of high caft, and learned men. I 

 began to interrogate them concerning the roads from 

 Ruttunpour to Ome.rcuntuc. They faid there was but 

 on^^ which led from the north fide of the town into 

 the hills, where it continually afcends and defcends 

 over mountains, and leads through deep defibes, on 

 the fides of precipices, and through a foreft almoft 

 impenetrable, to Pindara, (a diitance of about twelve 

 ct)fsj which is the head of a Piirguanah bearing the 

 fame name ; but the village is very poor, eonlifting 

 only of a few Goand huts. From this place the road 

 was only known to the mountaineers, who are always 

 taken as guides to direft the pilgrims in afcending 

 the table land of Omercuntuc. The Soane rifes on the 

 eaft fide of it, and flows firft through Pindara, where 

 bein<y joined by numerous other ftreams from the N. 

 E. fide of this mountainous land, it proceeds in a 

 northerly direftion through Sohaujepour, and Bogale- 

 Cund ; whence turning to the eaftward, it purfues its 

 Gourfe to the Ganges. After afcending the table land, 

 the temple is found fituated nearly in the center of it; 

 where the Nurhudda rifes from a fmall pucka CooJid, 

 ("or well,) from which, they told me, a ftream perpe- 

 tually flows, and glides along the furface of the high 

 land, until reaching the well end of it, it precipitates 

 ftfelf into Mundilld. They defcribed the fall as im- 

 menfe, and faid, that at the foot of the table land, 

 its be'd becomes a confidcrable expanfe, where being 

 immediately joined by fevcral other ftreams, itaffumes 

 the form of a large river. 



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