896 March from Brimhan Ghat to Umurkuntuk, [No. 105. 



plain to the south, with a few villages and some cultivation ; the last two 

 miles the hills gradually close in, and a defile with a gentle ascent is passed 

 through, to the Tola of Sulwah, the village itself being off to the south-east 

 about a mile. 



Ramgurh, thirteen miles. The first five and a half miles is chiefly over a 

 bare open undulated plain, crossed by a great number of little rivulets with 

 a slight ghatee to descend ; the road is then through a defile, along which 

 flows the Kookrar and Bhurkindee nuUas with lofty hills on each side, covered 

 with dense jungle grass, bamboos, and trees, a distance of about three miles, 

 when the Tendoo Ghatee, some 400 yards, is ascended ; pass along table 

 land, a mile or so when the hills recede, and an extensive valley running 

 about north and south, not very broad, presents itself, through which rather 

 a large stream, the Khurmer, flows ; and at the east side and left bank on a 

 small hill, is Ramgurh, the capital of a rajah, now lord of some 1400 villages ; 

 with exception of a pukka house, his residence, the village is entirely 

 bamboo wattling and thatch. 



Sumnapoor, nine miles. A good road up the valley of the Khurmer ; 

 several villages, and much more cultivation of rubbee than we have seen 

 since leaving the valley of the Nerbudda. 



Burbuspoor, six and a half miles. The road is the same as the preceding 

 for the first two and a half miles, when we enter the hills on our left, and 

 ascend a trifling ghatee called the Ghooghurwahee ghatee of about 400 yards, 

 by no means steep, on attaining the crest of which, the aspect and appear- 

 ance of the country is totally changed, partly from the predominance of the 

 sal tree, and partly from the greenness of the grass ; pass through a defile 

 200 yards wide, when the hills recede, and there is an open extensive plain 

 with the Muchrar flowing through the village on its right bank. 



Chukrar nulla, ten miles. Road lies across the valley of the Muchrar, 

 through cultivation, about two miles, when the hills close in, and the Lud- 

 wanee ghatee is ascended, not long or steep, but stony; the descent is consi- 

 derably steeper, but by no means bad for any cattle. On reaching the foot, 

 skirt the hills on the right, plain level road, there being a large grass plain 

 to the north ; the last two miles bad and stony trap boulders. 



Seeoonee nulla, ten and a half miles. On leaving the nulla small trap hills 

 are skirted for the first three miles, when you enter a thick jungle and ascend 

 the Mohtura ghatee, of easy ascent, the descent being steeper, but by no 

 means difficult ; the road then opens out into an extensive grass plain ; it 

 is to these grass plains that the thousands of cattle resort from the coun- 

 try below the ghats during the hot months ; remainder open, constantly 

 intersected with little streams, and no where did the water appear to be 

 above a couple of feet below the surface. 



