OUGEIN. 
As far as the eye can reach i is a level plain, which 
clofe on the road that leads to > Bopak On the right of the 
road, at the fame — is a park belonging to Sindiah, well 
ftocke d with dee 
The rajah Teyfing sslgs the city and territory of Oujein of 
the emperor, in eee ity fubahdar ; ie it foon after fell 
into the ha r belonged to the 
family of Sindiah fs three as “a8 3-) The dit- 
trict depending immediately on the city yields a revenue of 
five lacks of rupees (60,000/.) per annum, and comprehends 
175 villages. 
The officers of government are almoit the only Mahratta 
inhabitants of Oujein. The bulk of the people, both Hin- 
doos and Muffulmans, {peak a diale& very little oe 
from that of Agra and Dehli. The Muffulmans for 
Surat is faid 
e 
fe&, which forms the moft ufeful and dues clafs of 
the inhabitants 
e foil in the vicinity of Oujein, and indeed over the 
greateft ann of the province of Malwa, is a black vegetable 
mould, which, in the rainy ae becomes fo foft, that 
parts be the road-fide, that it is dangerous for a traveller 2 
go off the beaten traét ; as a horfe, getting his foot into one 
of thefe fiffures, endangers his own limbs, and the life of the 
rider. The quantity of rain that falls in ordinary feafons is 
fo confiderable, and the ground fo retentive of moifture, 
2 wb 
and is wit 
Grapes are abundant. 
Oujein is firft {upplied from Burhanpoor, a very bal and 
flourifhin ng town, more than 100 miles to pi = hwa 
the time the Burhanpoor grapes naed in 
April, thofe of Oujein a but are af ee i the former. 
The vines produce a fe rop in the rainy feafon, but 
The other au 
water melon 
i rs annona ({quamofa a sh yanenae feveral ae 
of oranges and limes, the h (Grewia afiatica), from 
which is made a moft -efrething fherbet, flightly aci- 
dulous. 
in Sind and provinces beyond it, comes hither on its way to 
the eaftward, . zapoor, &c.3; and diamonds, from 
Bundelcund to 
The following abeations on the weather at Oujein were 
ma unter in 1792. In, the months of April 
and May, the winds in the day-time were ftrong and hot ; 
iue thermometer expofed to them being from 93° to 109° 
t . Thef eat - little deviation, come fram 
the weftward. The hea tg P.M. varied from 80° to go°. 
e mornings were more Sa cuipeene. in one inftance only 
Fro ate 18th to ber 25th of May, we had frequent {qualls 
fica he N.W. and W.N.W.; once from N.E., with 
Teles lightning, and rain. The quantity of rain that 
fell in this time was about 1o inches. This weather is not 
ufual at this feafon: it produced a temporary coolnefs ; 3 but 
the fky clearing up before the end of the month, the air re- 
turned to its former temperature, and - exceeded it, for 
the vai heat now fometimes rofe t 
On 1th of June, the rains fet “ and the quantity 
that fel during the feafon was as 
M above, about 10 cele, ined 5 days. 
June, 3-521 9 
July, 12.071 22 
, Auguft, 21.088 22 
September, 5-651 9 
52-331 oF 
The rain terminated on the rgth of Sep tembe er. From 
the middle of June to the middle of July, the afternoon heat 
varied from 107° to 86°, gradually diminifhing as the feafon 
advanced,” and fometimes, from the continuance of the rain, 
ring this perio 
eavy, and fo uniformly fies d over the face 
of the heavens, that the fun could feldom dart a ray t 
the gloom. The rain was frequent, and long continued, 
but feldom heavy. The only inftance in which the rain of 
one day amounted to fo much as three inches was between 
7 P.M. of the rsth of Auguft, and of A.M. of the 16th. 
During this period of 26} hours, the rain was arin 
to 10.128 inches. It t 
ie 
to rife till the 16th at midnight, an d i vradcelly fub- 
fided ; but it was feveral days before the river was fordable 
After the rains were aver (14th September), the fky 
— up, and the mid-day and afternoon nee inc eed 
By the 23d, it was g2°; Otober ift, 101°; and till the 
middle of November, was feldam under go°. ” “The morn- 
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