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to the rcfident; and with great eagernefs of hofpi- 

 tality, invited us to pitch, the next day, on a Ipot 

 dole to the palace. 



Close to the encampment of this day, is a pretty 

 high and rugged hill of quartz, lome pieces ol which 

 are beautifully cliryftallized. On its lidc grows the 

 Tropins Afpera of KcE2;riG, called Salioora. On this 

 poor rocky foil, it is low and bufhy ; but in the plain 

 it is a tree of conliderable magnitude. From an idea 

 of its allringent, or antifeptic virtue, the natives ufe 

 little pieces of the wood, Iplit at one end into a kind 

 of bruJTi, for cleaning their 'ee h : the ufe of thefe 

 they recommend as a preferw ti -e againft tooth -ach ; 

 or a remedy for that difeafe. 



Ox the fame rocky hill grows a beautiful fpecies of 

 Evolvulus, of a blue colour, called by the natives 

 Seh'cu^a. It is the E. aljino'ides of Linn^us. It was 

 alfo found in plenty, on the argillaceous hills oi DlioU 

 poor and Gnalior. Within the fort, at the latter place. 

 It abounded fo much, that in many fpots, a carpet of 

 the fineft azure feemed to be fpread on the ground. 



March g. — Marched through the town o^Dltteah, 

 which is in length above a mile and a half, and nearly 

 as much in breadth ; populous and well built ; tlie 

 houfes being of ftone, and covered with tiles. It is 

 furroimded by a ftone wall, and furnillied with gates. 

 At the ncrth-weft extremity is a large building, with 

 one large and lix fmaller cupdlas : which was the aii- 

 cient habitation of the Rajahs, and is now inhabited 

 by fomc relations of the family : but the prefent Ra- 

 jah has built a palace for himfelf, without the town, on 

 the fouth-caft lide. It ftands on an eminence, and 

 commands a view of the country, as far as Pachour on 

 one lide, Nirivir on another, and JJumfi on. a third. 

 Ciofe to this hill, is a pretty extenlive lake, on the bank 

 of which we encamped. Bearing and diftance from 

 the laft encampment S 43 J E, five miles two furlongs. 



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