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great things cloth he, which we cannot comprehend, for he saith 

 to the snow, be thou upon the earth: likewise to the small rain and 

 the great rain of his strength." 



The upper terrace of the durbar overlooked the garden, the 

 lake, and all its surrounding embellishments; consisting of rich 

 groves, embowering Hindoo temples, Mahomedan mosques, and 

 costly tombs of the principal Mussulmans. Beyond the city walls 

 was seen a landscape replete with populous villages, luxuriant corn- 

 fields, herds of oxen, flocks of sheep and goats, and a numerous 

 peasantry, employed in agriculture: this charming plaiu was ter- 

 minated on the north-east by the mountain ofPowa-Gur, one of the 

 strong-holds of the Mahratta empire; of a stupendous height, diffi- 

 cult ascent, and completely fortified at the summit. This majestic 

 eminence is connected with a chain of hills, stretching eastward, 

 until they join the mountains beyond the Nerbudda; that ferti- 

 lizing stream which begins its course many hundred miles off, in a 

 mountainous region on the confines of the Bengal proviuces; and 



flowing: from thence in a narrow channel to the falls near Chan- 

 ce 



dode, there expands into a noble river, still increasing in size until 

 it washes the walls of Baroche, and becomes navigable for large 

 vessels to the gulph of Cambay. 



Powa-gur is with great reason supposed to be the Tiagur, or 

 Tiagura, of Ptolemy: though he there mistakes the river Narmada, 

 or Nerbudda, for the D'had'hara, or Dahder, a contiguous stream 

 often mentioned in these volumes. The Nerbudda, the Narmada 

 of the Greeks, takes its rise in the mountains of Pindara, a wild 

 and barbarous country. Near its source, the Hindoos erected a 

 temple called Omercuntuc, which at stated times is much resorted 



