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considerable places in lhat province, now greatly impoverished 

 and reduced. 



On the 5th we continued our morning march, and passing 

 Jamlah and another village, reached the banks of the Myhi, hav- 

 ing travelled about fifteen miles from Pitlabad, through a pleasant 

 cultivated country, producing wheat, barley, and abundance of 

 poppies for extracting opium, but a magnificent wildness charac- 

 terized the approach to this celebrated river. The bed is about a 

 hundred yards broad, but the stream, so late in the season, every 

 where small, and in some places discontinued. We crossed at 

 one of the principal passes from Oojen, (or Ujen) to Guzerat. 

 The defiles and gullies on each side are very deep, and the road 

 indifferent. The banks on each side the river are generally of 

 equal height, but opposite the pass is an eminence, well calcu- 

 lated for a post to obstruct an enemy's passage from Guzerat to 

 Malwa. The ravines and inaccessible retreats near the banks of 

 the My hi, render its borderers notorious for their depredations. 

 We passed them with great circumspection. Indeed at the outset 

 of the mission a regular plan of encampment, and a very strict and 

 vigilant police had been established. 



On leaving the Myhi we proceeded to Rajoud, a large zemin- 

 darree village, belonging to a Rajpoot, named Keysree Sihng, on 

 the little river Cote-Ser, where we encamped after a march of 

 twenty miles. This place is about ten coss from the source of the 

 Myhi, and three from that of the Cote-Ser. The former is at a 

 place called Chimpapoora near Umjeree, the latter near two vil- 

 lages named Coa and Budnar. A Hindoo temple is buiit over the 

 spring of the Myhi, near which it falls in a beautiful cascade into 



