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raand a fine view over a pleasant diversified country ; many parts 

 of it are covered with a high grass, or reed, with bunches of seed- 

 vessels on the lop, so white and singular in their growth as to give 

 the fields the appearance of feeding numerous flocks of sheep, for 

 which I at first took them. Intending to proceed on the 28th, we 

 were prevented by a furious tempest, and forced to take shelter 

 under the river bank, where we passed the night with great danger, 

 and the loss of two men drowned. 



Violent gales and heavy rains delayed our reaching Bhaughul- 

 pore, on an interior branch of the great river, until the 1st of Oc- 

 tober. The English chief's house is a laroe beautiful building on 

 the Italian model, finely placed at the top of a lawn, sloping down 

 to the river, planted with flowering shrubs, and near it is a paddock 

 with elks and some curious deer. Bhaugulpore, now a flourishing 

 place, is indebted for all its beauties and improvements to the late 

 chief, Mr. Cleveland, whose good name stands infinitely beyond 

 any panegyric I can bestow, being established on the most perma- 

 nent basis, the universal praise of a grateful people, liberated from 

 perpetual invaders by his exertions, and enjoying security and pro- 

 tection under his fostering care. 



When Mr. Cleveland took charge of the chiefship of Bhaugul- 

 pore, the jurisdiction of which extends to the distance of a hundred 

 and twenty miles, the country was in many places a perfect waste, 

 and cultivation in general relaxed and deficient, arising chiefly 

 from a scanty population, in consequence of the insecurity of 

 property from the depredations of a savage race who inhabited 

 the neighbouring hills ; and not only robbed, burnt, and destroyed 

 the villages, but to devastation frequently added cruelty and mur- 



