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rains; when its lays cause llie old wounds of lovers to bleed afresh. 

 This bird is also called peeyoo, which in the Sanscrit language sig- 

 nifies beloved. 



The cold evenings in January often compelled us to leave the 

 sutnmeana, and retire for warmth within our tents. This was the 

 coldest season I ever felt in Guzerat; far more so than is generally 

 experienced in the twenty-third degree of north latitude; it was 

 most intense about an hour before sun-rise; and although there 

 was no ice, the cold was certainly more sharp and penetrating 

 than the autumnal frosts in England. I never met with ice in 

 India, but I have been told some old people at Surat remembered 

 to have seen it. In an interesting journey in 1798, from Mirza- 

 poor to Nagpoor, we find that for several days together, in the 

 month of January, in the twenty-fourth degree of north latitude, 

 the travellers met with sharp frosts, and ice on the ponds and in 

 their vessels, for more than two hours after sun-rise: a thermo- 

 meter, which had been exposed all night, was covered with icicles 

 in the morning, and stood after sun-rise at 21°. This appears to have 

 been the coldest night exhibited by Fahrenheit's thermometer on 

 that journey; which generally stood at 23° or 24° at sun-rise, rose 

 at noon to 62°, and by ten at night fell to 31°. 



The grandest feature, from all our northern encampments on 

 this excursion, was the stupendous mountain of Powa-ghurr ; which 

 at that distance appeared a single eminence; but on a nearer ap- 

 proach was observed to be connected with a range of hills, and 

 much picturesque scenery, an account of which is introduced in a 

 future chapter. The water at Powa-ghur, and many mountainous 



