1838.] Journal of a Tour in Orissa. 679 



but there seems to be a want of good water, and this may be attributed 

 to the circumstance of most of the running streams having their source 

 in jheels, passing over low alluvial soil, and through thick jungle. The 

 inhabitants, however, who live at a distance from the main streams, 

 use the water from wells, which is considered good. 



I know little else worthy of remark regarding the country of Mut- 

 tuck or its inhabitants, and the latter no doubt resemble those of the 

 same classes in other parts of Assam. The Morans, however, have some 

 peculiarities which are not met with in other Assamese. They are rude 

 and rough in their manners, and much more robust in their persons 

 than most Assamese, and they are not as yet, addicted to the use of 

 opium. Their only peculiarities in dress are that they wear black 

 turbans, and very long amber ear-rings. 



In these people, we might perhaps trace a remnant of what the in- 

 habitants of Upper Assam were a century ago. 



II. — Mr. Kit-toe's Journal of his Tour in the Province of Orissa, 



Having been deputed by the Coal and Mineral Committee to explore 

 the supposed coal fields of Orissa, reported by me in 1837, I left 

 Calcutta by dawk on the 23rd of February 1838, with a determination 

 to make the most of my time and journey, also of the small pecuniary 

 allowance made for the purpose, in antiquarian and other research 

 beyond the mere exploring of the coal localities. 



I reached Mednipur on the morning of the 24th ; left again at 9 

 p. m. and arrived at Jalesiuara f Anglice JellasoreJ, the following 

 morning, the 25th ; I carefully examined the bed of the Subanrika, 

 but could not discover any trace of coal. 



I was shewn an old musjid on the bank of the river close to the 

 village ; over its centre arch is an Arabic inscription in the Toghra 

 character of which I took a facsimile ; it is a quotation from the Koran 

 and apparently the name of one of the Pathdn emperors of Gaur ; 

 the musjid is very small and built in the rudest style with blocks of 

 laterite taken from some demolished temple ; there has been a small 

 oblong area to it enclosed by a stone wall, having four small flanking 

 towers at the corners and a gateway in the centre of the eastern face, 

 the whole is now nearly demolished. 



About four miles hence to the northward on the right (or south) 

 bank of the river, are the remains of a very extensive fortification the 

 history of which is buried in oblivion ; I had intended to have visited 

 this place on my return, but was prevented by sickness. 

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