25 T^TARRATIVE OF A JOUR^^^EY 



March 15. — Marched S 9 E, 11,3 miles, to Virtl- 

 pof)r, a fmall village, belonging to the Rajah of Oz/wJ;^. 

 The road is ftony, and much encumbered with thorns. 



March lO. — Marc IT ED S 17 E, 13 miles, to Bit- 

 mouree. The road more open, efpecially towards the 

 end. We encamped on a plain, very prettily iliaded 

 wit:h clumps of trees. The village ftands upon a riling 

 ground, the lioufes are of ftone, covered with tiles ; 

 the lircets wide and clean. 



]\Iarch 17. — Marched S 15 E, 11,3 miles, to 

 BeJgaimg. Tiie road lies through a wood, in the be- 

 ginning m.uch encun:iber€*d, afterwards more open In 

 the woods, we met with the Bo^nhax Gojfypium of 

 LiNx^rs, a beautiful tree, of middling lize, which 

 grows ftraight, and iias but few branches, all at the 

 top. It bears large yellow flowers, in cluftcrs, at the 

 ends of the branches. At the time when I law it, it 

 had no leaves. 



March 18. — Marched S 2 W, 10,05 miles, to 

 Tearee. The road, in the beginning, encumbered 

 with brufli-wood, but afterwards clear, and the coun- 

 try cultivated. The crop of wheat and barley was 

 nearly ripe. This is a large village, with a fort, on an 

 adjoining height. It is in tiie diftri(ft of the Ouncha 

 Kajah. Chanel eri is reckoned lixteen cofs from hence, 

 and Chatterpoor twenty-five. 



March 19. — Marched S 23^ W, 11,97 miles, 

 to Mnrounee^ a pretty large village, with a fort, be- 

 longing to Ram-Chund, the Rajah of Chanderi, which 

 fc dittant fourteen cofs, towards tiie N. W. The Ra- 

 j:ah lives in a kind of retirement at Oiidh, and has left 

 the admhniltration in the hands of his fon, who pays 

 a tribute to the Mahr atlas. The road was good, ex- 

 cept at pafling the fmall river Jumnar, the banks of 

 which are fleep, and its bed full of large round ftones. 



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