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Another method, practised by the natives, is to 

 fjtupify or kill them, with vegetable substances: for 

 this purpose they make choice of a pool formed by the 

 current, and turning the stream, by heaping up stones, 

 stop up the supply of fresh water into it, in the same 

 manner, closing eveiy outlet, then bruising the fruit 

 X)f a tree common here, they cast a quantity into the 

 pool, and in about half an hour, its deleterious eifect 

 seldom fails to shew itself: the fish, unable to pre- 

 serve their equilibrium, tumble about, rise to the sur- 

 face of the water, and are easily taken M'ith the hands. 



On the 524th, in three hours thirty-five minutes, I 

 reached Bdkate. The scenery, on this day's march, 

 was more beautifully diversified, than in any preced- 

 ing one. The forests of oak, hr, and boorans*, are 

 here more extensive, and the trees of greater magni- 

 tude than any I have yet seen. Unfortunately, nei- 

 ther the traveller's mind, nor his eye, can be enough 

 disengaged, to admire, in security, the sublimity of 

 this prospect : for after the ascent of a pretty high 

 ridge of mountains, the road is continued along their 

 side; winding, and so narrow, that without constant 

 attention, you are in danger of being precipitated into 

 an alarming depth of valley on the right. 



The spot, on which I encamped, is a narrow val- 

 ley, separating the villages of Bcdeyl and Belkate, 

 which are nearly opposite to each other; the river 

 Nayaar running between, wdth a stream beautifully 

 transparent, in the direction of W. N. W. 



The principal source which forms this river, if I am 

 to trust the authority of the natives, lies at a place 

 called Doobree^ about forty eight coss, or four days 

 journey east (to a man on foot, without burthen;) 

 and issues, in a considerable stream, from the root of 

 j3. tree called Beh-kuL It falls into the Ganges, about 



* See the catalogue annexed to tills paper. 



