1164 Visit to Mehim and the Oonta [No. 132. 



cloud visible. Marched at llh. 30m. a. m., descended to the river 

 over a sanga immediately below the village; the sanga, or rather the 

 stream, was seventeen paces wide, or about forty feet ; near the banks of 

 the stream the turf was very thick and short, and delightful to walk 

 on. About two miles came to a small village ; five or six houses, 

 (Mapari,) close to which the gooseberry was growing, of which there 

 were two species, one with a smooth stalk, the other rough and bristly.; 

 saw no currant bushes.* The rocks, clay slate and greywacke, with a 

 good many masses and fragments of quartz, and as I approached the 

 village of Pachoo, the rock became of a reddish brown clay on the wea- 

 ther surface, but grey in the fracture; many of the fragments contain- 

 ed ore in some quantity ; all the fragments and masses have descended 

 from the height above. There are two villages called Pachoof on 

 either side of a large stream which comes down from the direction of 

 Specimens Nundee Debee,J and which are crossed on a small 

 76 to 89. sanga. There are six or eight mows§ in the first, 



and ten or twelve in the second, (which I was told paid forty rupees 

 a year to Bijjee Sing.) These villages',! are about three miles below 

 Melum. Arrived at Melum at 4h. 45m. p. m., stopped a good while 

 on the road.5[ Recrossed the Gooree immediately below Melum, which 

 is situated in an open spot of ground of some extent on the oppo- 

 site side. At about half a mile runs in a N. E. direction the Goonka, 

 up which lies the road to the Pass; the other stream, they say, was 

 the shortest course, being only one day's journey. 



N. B. — This stream below Milum, was only thirteen paces, or about 

 thirty- two feet across, having diminished in its breadth about eight feet. 

 The Goonka joins it about a mile below this. 



* I saw currants at Melum on the 25th May, the young fruit just out,. Plants strong 

 and flourishing. — J. A. W. 



f Pachoo on the north bank is rent free in "suda-burt" tenure, for the feeding of 

 pilgrims to Manessurouwer. — J. H. B. 



Ganaghur on the south, Pachoo on the north bank of Pachoo River. A fair is held 

 here annually one day, in the rains. — J. A. W. 



% The Peak of which appears (West) magnificently grand and near ; from the north 

 bank of Pachoo River in ascending. — J. A. W. 



§ "Mowasahs," or families.— J. H. B. 



|| Have a very good extent of level culturable land along the right bank of the 

 Gorec— J. A. W. 



If i.e. From the N. E.-J. H. B. 



