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had laid his head at the foot of the elephant of the renowned 

 Sindia. 



On the 24th of .April we travelled sixteen miles, passing through 

 an open cultivated country; about half way we crossed the river 

 Choper, and entering a valley between two woody hills, followed 

 its course for some distance. After riding through a thick jungle 

 for three miles, we suddenly came in view of Jercoon, a large fort 

 belonging to Btilwant Sihng, situated on a hill in the midst of a 

 plain, which seemed an entire rock: the towers were of no great 

 strength, and the face we passed bore the marks of a siege. From 

 thence an indifferent road through a hilly country brought us to 

 Maulpoor, the termination of the Ragoghur rajahship. The sur- 

 rounding country was wild and romantic, the hills abounding 

 with game. Here we saw a number of deer, and four large 

 sabirs, or samboos, one considerably bigger than an ox, with hares, 

 peacocks, and partridges in incredible numbers. We pursued the 

 game for several hours in this irregular tract, in a heat from ninety 

 to a hundred degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, without the least 

 prejudice to our health. 



The following day's inarch . of nineteen miles, through a fruit- 

 ful well-cultivated country, belonging to the peshwa, produced 

 nothing remarkable. On the 26th we travelled eighteen miles to 

 Boora Doongre, generally over a dreary plain, on which we saw 

 only two villages, no river, and a few pools of stagnant water. 

 About five miles from Boora Doongre we passed the ruins of a 

 small village, called Durdeh, where Mhadajee Sindia was en- 

 camped, when so completely surprised by colonel Camac, from 



