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and early in next morning marched towards Barochc, where it 

 was intended to halt a few days, to obtain a supply of money, 

 ammunition and stores, and to send the sick and wounded to the 

 hospital. On leaving Fazal-poor, we proceeded through a continu- 

 ation of deep defiles, and almost subterraneous passes, for Iavo 

 miles; from whence we entered a cultivated plain, in the Brodera 

 Purgunna, which having hitherto escaped the ravages of war, pre- 

 sented a perfect garden. 



Near a village called Sevasee Contra, I left the line of march, 

 to sketch a remarkable building, which formed an oblong square 

 of two hundred feet by fifty; the walls were low, and a small 

 dome at each corner gave it the appearance of a Mahomedan 

 mausoleum. On a nearer approach, I discovered it to be a well of 

 very superior workmanship; of that kind which the natives call 

 JBhouree, or Bhoulee: the portal was elegant, the roof supported 

 by pillars, each a single stone, twelve feet high; this led to a flight 

 of an hundred and twenty steps, of hewn stone, terminating at a 

 reservoir of fine water; the space from the fountain to the portal, 

 the perpendicular height of these noble stairs, was ornamented 

 with six tiers of pillars, of an elegant order, each tier supporting 

 large stones across the breadth; these columns were of a single 

 stone twelve feet high, the base, shaft and capital well propor- 

 tioned. These two rows of pillars, and two of pilasters corres- 

 ponding on the side walls, formed three magnificent avenues to 

 the fountain at the bottom, and produced a good effect from the 

 different resting places, which were adorned with niches, and a 

 profusion of carved-work; the cross stone on the uppermost tier 

 was richly sculptured, and contained an inscription, which I did 



