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their answers, they evinced their utter indifference to the subject, and 

 their determination to adhere to the customs of their fathers. The 

 coal bed is not above a mile distant from the works. 



The village of Bulled is very prettily situated, and the view from 

 it in every direction very picturesque. Towards the N. W. and at 

 a distance of three or four miles, is a semicircular range of hills called 

 the Mahoodee Pahar, very much resembling, though scarcely equalling 

 in altitude the Salisbury Crags, at Edinburgh ; that is to say, there is a 

 steep talus (formed in a great measure to all appearance from debris, 

 which have fallen from above) of 200 or 300 feet elevation, and then 

 you come on a steep precipice, which it appears impossible to scale. The 

 Haharoo Nuddee winds in beautiful meanderings along the base of 

 this high range. Hilly ranges of considerable altitude surround the plain 

 on which Bulled is situated, and I regretted much that I had no time 

 to examine their formation, or even to visit the Mahoodee Pahar, which 

 was not very far distant from my camp. In a commercial point of 

 view, little or no importance can be attached to the discovery of coal at 

 Bullea, at least in the present day. It is near no navigable river; no 

 public works of any importance are in its vicinity, excepting the iron 

 works above alluded to, and it will require more than persuasion I am 

 afraid, to induce the natives to abandon the use of wood and charcoal, 

 for a cheaper and more useful material. The roads passing over steep 

 and rocky ghauts, are by no means in a good state, though it is to be ex- 

 pected, owing to the exertions of Major Ousely, Governor General's 

 Agent, that they will soon be much improved. 



[This paper was communicated immediately on its receipt to Government, but having 

 been subsequently mislaid, has not appeared at an early date as it should have done.] 



