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any mocleration in the heat of the day. Tiic thenno- 

 nieter was up to ninety-live, and never lower tlian 

 .seventy-two within my tent. 



On the 23d, after a walk of three hours and ten 

 minutes, I arrived at Dosah, an inconsiderable \illage 

 on the banks of the nullah, along which lay the great- 

 est part of the road, from last encampment. This 

 day s journey exhibited a considerable variety of sce- 

 nery, being now a rugged path, ])etwecn abrupt ira- 

 ])ending rocks, and now, little open spaces, surround- 

 ed A\^ith gently sloping hills, the sides of which are 

 diversified with clumps of fir, oak, andsaul, and with 

 cultivated ground. In one of these latter situations, 

 the water is conducted from one side of the nullah, 

 tO' the fields on the other by an ingenious, though 

 simple contrivance. A trough, formed by hollowing 

 the body of a large fir-tree, is placed across, Avh.ere 

 t\\e over-hanging rocks favour the conmiunication, 

 and conducts a stream, sufficient for the purpose of 

 irrigation. 



The Koa-mdlah has its source al)out three miles 

 nhoxe'Dosah to the north, and its first small branch 

 jises in a spring at Dezmra-Kaal, and receives in- 

 crease from several small rills, issuing from the sur- 

 rounding hills, between Dezvara-Kaai, and this place. 



The bed of the nullah here contains great quanti- 

 ties of Alica, of various tints, accoiding to its im- 

 pregnation with iron or other metallic ores : the 

 mountains exhibit it in very considerable masses ; and, 

 in many places, it falls crumbling down their sides, 

 into the water-courses below. 1 hence it is carried 

 away, by the currents, shining at the bottom, with a 

 lustre little less brilliant than silver. None of it, 

 however, is of so pure a transparency as to serve the 

 purposes to which this substance is usually applied, 



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