CHAPTER XXIX. 



General Goddard, in command of the army detached from 

 Bengal in 1779 to the assistance of the government at Bombay, 

 having conquered Ahmedabad and several other places in the Gu- 

 zerat province, I embraced the first opportunity in my power to 

 visit that celebrated capital, formerly the pride of western Hindos- 

 tan, and still vying with Agra and Delhi in magnificent remains of 

 mogul grandeur. 



Having finished the latter harvests, and collected the revenues 

 in the Dhuboy districts, in the month of April 1781 I commenced 

 my journey, proceeding first to Baroche, and from thence to Ah- 

 mood, a distance of twenty miles. In Guzerat, as in most other 

 parts of India, the distance from one place to another is reckoned 

 by the coss, which in that province seldom exceeds one mile and a 

 half. Its length varies in different countries, although geographers 

 generally estimate the coss in Hindostan at two English miles. 

 The usual rate of travelling in a hackery, drawn by a pair of bul- 

 locks, or in a palanquin, with eight bearers to relieve each other, is 

 from three to four miles an hour ; this they will keep up for five 

 hours without inconvenience. 



The Boukie and Nyar are the only rivers between Baroche and 



