﻿FROM CHUNARGHUR TO YERTN AGOODUM. 107 



fent me a paper on which were written fome lines in 

 the Dconagur character, but which proved to be no- 

 thing more than a tranfcript from the Mahabarat. 



RuTTUNPOUR is undoubtedly a place of great anti- 

 quity; and, could I have remained there a fufficient 

 time to examine its ruins, and to Icarch for the ancient 

 records of the place, it is probable 1 (hould have ob- 

 tained fome ufeful information concerning it. 



March i8th. Having now relied five davs at 

 Ruttunpour^ our journey was renewed, with frefli 

 fpirits, through a champaign countrv, abundantly 

 watered with little rivers, full of villages, and beauti- 

 fully ornamented with groves and tanks. After the 

 difficulties we had encountered, the change of {ctnt 

 was truly gratifying; and the Manratia government 

 being well eftablilhed, and the country highly culti- 

 vated, we met with civil treatment, and abundance of 

 every fpecies of grain. Thefe were comforts to which 

 we had been fo long unaccultomed, that the hardfliips 

 we had fuffered in traverfing the mountains and wiids 

 of Corair^ Kurgummah, and Mahlin^ were {oou for- 

 got. But as an account of each day's journey, 

 through this fertile country, would be tedious and 

 uninterelling in the detail, 1 need only mention, that 

 we travelled lOO miles through it in little more than 

 thirteen days, which brought us on the 31 it of March 

 to Rye pour, the next principal town in ChoteeJ^ur ; 

 but which, from its population, and commerce, might 

 jultly be ranked the hrlt. I computed about 3000 

 huts in it : there is alfo a large ftone fort on the N. E. 

 lide of the town, ttie walls of which are decayed, but 

 the ditch is deep and wide. 



The foil in this country is a rich black mould, but 

 no where more than three feet in depth. Under this 

 the folid rock appears, as was perceptible in all the 

 beds of the rivers, and in the fides of tanks and wells. 



It 



