CONTENTS. 



An officer sent by the governors of Oojen to the embassy — the gentle- 

 men conducted to view the city — river Sepra — citadel— magnifi- 

 cent summer -palace at Calloa Deh — public buildings at Oojen — 

 its great antiquity — public gardens — dancing-girls — visit from 

 the governors — departure from Oojen — Turrana — Ccmadrakd Tel- 

 low — Shah-Jehan Poor — its present decay — state of the thermome- 

 ter — Sarung-poor, its wretched condition — an extraordinary set of 

 robbers and murderers— division of the Malwa province — Kooj- 

 neer — beauty of the country and industry of the peasants — Raje- 

 ghur — manufactures — kindness of the rajah — meeting with Devjee 

 Goleh, a Mahratta general — sterile and stony country — hostile 

 appearance at Kuchonder — Ragoghur — account of the rajah Bul- 

 want Sihng — spirited letter to Mhadajee Sindia — brilliant suc- 

 cesses of Colonel Camac and Major Popham — Malwa from its fer- 

 tility a resource for others during a dreadful famine— Sasy-Seroy, 

 <i royal Serai — singularity of the stone-roofed habitations at Sasye 

 Dowlah Gaum — illness and cure of a native — approach the iron 

 mines— ferruginous appearance of the hills — solitary fakeer — 

 pleasant scenery at Berye — arrival at the iron mines — par- 

 ticulars of the iron earth, forges, smelting-houses, and price 

 of iron in that country — brief history of Gwalicr — arrival 

 there — description of the city — magnificent well — munificence of 



