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B.ef. vol. I.) They were now in flower, and as the 

 number of feeds in the ripe fruit is very uncertain, 

 which has caufed fome confulion, I this day examined 

 the gcrmina of twenty-one flowers. Thirteen had the 

 nidiments of eight feeds, fix of nine, and two of fevcn. 

 Tlie fl:amina were 24, 25, and 26, but I have fonierly 

 fecn flowers with only l6. 



•^pr'il 12. — Marched wefl: 17^89 miles, to Shah- 

 jch 7ipoor. The road was good, the foil as before, 

 but the country appeared to have remained long un- 

 cultivated. It is all overgroun with brufhwood, among 

 which the Plafs (Butea f rondo/a) and wild date (Elate 

 Jyhejirls) hold the principal place. 



Shahjehanpoor is a confidcrabte town^ and head of a 

 pergunnah, belonging to Sixdiah. It lies on the 

 banks of the river Sagwmuttte. About half a mile to 

 the weftward of the town is a conical hill, which is 

 confpicuous at a great diftance. 



Apri]\Z. — Marched S 5QjW, 1(5,66 miles, ta 

 Tiirana^ a town and head of a pergunnah, belonging 

 to Aheltah Bai. The firft thirteen miles we met 

 with very bad road, among rocks and broken ground, 

 incapable of cultivation. The remainder of the road 

 was gocdj through a cultivated country. In the 

 neighbourhood of Turdna, wc found an avenue of 

 young trees of confiderable extent, which we were in- 

 formed was planted by Aheliah Bai. A taflc for 

 improvements of this nature is uncommon among 71/^^- 

 raltas ; and this gave me a favourable impreiiion of 

 that princels's government, which was confirmed by 

 farther enquiry. 



April 14. — Marched S 48 J W, 12 miles, to Taj- 

 foor, a village belonging to Sindiah. The road 

 lloiiey, and the ground full of holes. Little cultivation. 



April 



