CHAPTER III. 



Ek-powa Ghat — Sandstones — Shahgunj — Table-land, elevation, &c. — Gum-arabic 

 — Mango — Fair — Aquatic plants — Rujubbund — Storm — False sunset and 

 sunrise — Bind hills — Mirzapore — Manufactures, imports, &c. — Climate of — 

 Thuggee — Chunar — Benares — Mosque — Observatory — Sar-nath — 

 Ghazeepore — Rose-gardens — Manufactory of Attar— Lord Cornwallis' tomb 

 — Ganges, scenery and natural history of — Pelicans — Vegetation — Insects — 

 Dinapore — Patna — Opium godowns and manufacture — Mudar, white and 

 purple — Monghyr islets — Hot Springs of Setakoond — Alluvium of Ganges — 

 Rocks of Sultun-gunj — Bhaugulpore — Temples of Mt. Manden — Coles and 

 native tribes — Bhaugulpore rangers — Horticultural gardens. 



On the 3rd of March I bade farewell to Mr. Williams 

 and his kind party, and rode over a plain to the village of 

 Markunda, at the foot of the Ghat. There the country 

 becomes very rocky and wooded, and a stream is crossed, 

 which runs over a flat bed of limestone, cracked into the 

 appearance of a tesselated pavement. For many miles 

 there is no pass over the Kymore range, except this, 

 significantly called " Ek-powa-Ghat " (one-foot Ghat). It 

 is evidently a fault, or shifting of the rocks, producing so 

 broken a cliff as to admit of a path winding over the 

 shattered crags. On either side, the precipices are ex- 

 tremely steep, of horizontally stratified rocks, continued in 

 an unbroken line, and the views across the plain and Soane 

 valley, over which the sun was now setting, were superb. 

 At the summit we entered on a dead flat plain or table- 

 land, with no hills, except along the brim of the broad 

 valley we had left, where are some curious broad pyramids, 



