60 NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY 



The town of Boondee is fituated on the foutherly 

 declivity of a long range of hills, which runs, nearly 

 from ealr to welt. The palace of the Rajah, a large and 

 mall) building of ftone, is about half way up ; and 

 a kind of ftone fortification runs to the top of the 

 hill. Tlie pafs, through the hill, lies to the eaftward 

 of the town, and is fccured by a gate, at each end. 



TriE Rajah, named Bishun Sing, of the tribe 

 Hdra, is aged nineteen or twenty. His family and 

 that of KotciJiy are nearly related. That of Boondee 

 is the elder branch, and was formerly the chief, in- 

 point of power : but its- poflelTions have been reduced, 

 by the "irruptions of the IShihrattas^ and encroachments 

 of the Kotah iamily, to the revenue of fix lacks; of 

 which even a fourtli part, or chout, is paid to the 

 Mahrattas \ one half to Sindiah, and the other half 



to HOLCAR. 



March 31. — Makched north, 10,.28 miles, to 

 Dtiblihui, a pretty large \'illage in the diftri(9: of 

 BooTidce. Road in general good. Soil grey and light: 

 very dufty : little cultivation- Much jungle, con- 

 futing chiefly or Pahyh (Butea f rondo/a J, Bohool 

 (Mimoja nilotica)^ Careel or Teantee^ (a fpecies' of- 

 Capparis), and Jiifid (^dcjimithera aadeata, of DocSlcr 

 Roxburgh, defcribed by him in the Jjiat'uk Rc- 

 fearches, Vol. IV, under the name of Brofopis- 

 aculeaia)* 



JJjtH 1. — IMarched N 6g E, XaDoogaree, a pretty 

 large village belonging to Boondee. It is nearly fur- 

 rounded with hills, and has, to the weft-ward, an 

 extenlive lake. On the bank, where it joins to the 

 village, is an old houfe of the Rajah, on a pretty high 

 liill ; and on the extremity of a promontory, that runs 

 into the lake, is a temple confecrated to Ma'hadeo. 

 Great part of the road on this day's march lay over 

 Schi/lusy the Itrata, of which were nearly vertical :• 



* Prcfoyu fpic'igera* Roxb, Ind. PI. Vol. I> Xo. C3. 



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