FBOM AGKA TO OUJEIN. 1^ 



FnoM this garden, the hill and fort of Guallor are 

 feen, bearing S 32 £. 



On this march, befides the Sank, we crofled two 

 other rivers, the Cohdry or Qudree and Ahjiii ; both ford- 

 able. The face of the country is bare, being defti- 

 tute of treeSj and almoft without cultivation. Near 

 the road are feveral fmall forts, fome of mud, and 

 others of ftone, poflefTed by petty chiefs, who derive a 

 precarious revenue from predatory attacks on the un - 

 wary and defencelefs traveller. 



Feb. 29. — Marched S 27§ E, 13,2 miles, to 

 GuaJlor, and encamped to the north-weft of the fort. 

 The hill on which ftands this celebrated fortrefs, runs 

 from N 13 E to S 13 W. It is in length one mile 

 and lix tenths. Its greateft breadth does not exceed 

 300 yards. The height at the north end, where it is 

 gioatclt, is 342 feet. At this end is a palace, and 

 about the middle of the fort are two remarkable py- 

 ramidal buildings of red ftone. They are in the moft 

 ancient ftylc of Hindu architedfure, and are faid to 

 have been built for the rclidencc of the mother-in- 

 law and fifter- in-law of a Rajah, who reigned in a very- 

 remote period, when this fortrelswas the capital of an ex- 

 tcnlivc empire. A ftone parapet runs all round, clofc to 

 the brow of the hill, v/hich is fo fteep, that it was judged 

 perfectly fecure from affault, till Major Pop ham took it 

 by cicalade, on the 3d Augujt 178O * : The only gate 

 is towards the northern extremity of the eaft lidc, from 



which 



* The particulars of this brilliant atchievement, which refleft^; 

 equal honour on that officer, who commanded in chief, and on 

 Captain Bruce, who propofed the meafure, and led on the party 

 ■which firlt gained a footing on the rock, are too well known, to 

 ftand in need of recapitulation in this place. The fort wa3, fooxi 

 after delivered, agieeably to the terms of alliance, to the Rana of 

 GoHUD. But that prince having failed in the performance of his 

 engagements to the Enghjb government, during the v/ar, and after- - 

 ■wards deviated from the conditions of the treaty with the Mat- 

 rattan, wherein he had been included, was jultly abandoned to 

 their refentment. Sindiah invelted the fort, and, after a fruiileis 

 liege of mauv months, prevailed by corrupting a part of the garri- 



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