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carried me to Glihioith/, the distance of wliifch frorn 

 yhihsore, I compute to !)e eight miles; the road being- 

 much less oi)structed than yesterday. Towards the 

 beginning of this day's march, the road passes be- 

 tween two stupendous rocks. The stones, in tins 

 part of tlie nullah, lying in very large masses, the 

 stream passing between with very great rapidity, and 

 the only path across being on spars laid from rock to 

 rock, tlie passenger is exposed to imminent danger. 

 Farther on, I met with one of the small water-mills, 

 called Piuichuckce, which was now working. The 

 construction is very simple : the stones which are 

 little larger than those turned by the hand, and call- 

 ed cJiucliic^, are worked by means of an horizontal" 

 wheel ; the spokes or which are cut like the valves of 

 a Venetian window, and set obliquely into the case 

 of a perpendicular shaft ; aiul, upon these ^•alves, a 

 stream of water, from a narrow spout, at al.)out four 

 feet elevation, falls,, with force enough, to give 

 brisk motion to the machine. The water is brought 

 to.it, by banking up the stream of the nullah, till it 

 acquires the necessary elevation. The hopper is a co- 

 nical basket, suspended M'ith the narrow end of the 

 cone over the hole in the stones ; and being kept in 

 a gentle motion, it supplies thcni constantly and re- 

 gularly. In this inanner, two men relieving each 

 other, Avill grind from lour to six maunds of grain in 

 twenty-four hours. 



The village at Gli'uwuli/ consists of three huts. 

 Seldom more than live or six together are to be met 

 with ; antl it is a large village that lias so many as 

 ten. ^ ■ 



The hills in tliis situation, are not so close as those 

 in the road behind me ; the ground between, on each 

 side the nullah, elevated and \ery pleasant ; and the 

 cultivation carried to the very summits of those 

 mountains. The sides of all, look greener than 

 those hitherto seen, but I was not vet sensible of 



any 



