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yet to judge from the cultivation, far from poor ; and though at present 

 thinly peopled, and but partially cultivated, was once otherwise. The 

 land revenue had dwindled down to 10,000 rupees, when it came into 

 our possession. It is said to have yielded 80,000 in the time of 

 the Rajahs of Gurhwal. Under the fostering care of the British Govern- 

 ment, it will not be long in recovering its former prosperity. The prin- 

 cipal difficulty appears to be the want of water for irrigation, yet this is 

 an objection easily remedied, for with so varied a surface, and so many 

 streams, water might at a trifling expensebe conducted in almost any direc- 

 tion. Capitalists are wanting to undertake this and other improvements. 



63. The Pinjore Valley is the next in point of extent. It has in 

 parts a breadth of perhaps six miles, and its length may be estimated 

 at about thirty. It is tolerably even in its surface, and the hills which 

 bound it to the Southward, are of much less depth and of less elevation 

 than those of the Dehra Valley, at its South-east angle, in the 

 debouche of the Gaggur, a river which is lost in the sands of the Desert. 

 From Tuxal the streams run in one direction towards the Guggur, in 

 the other towards the Plassia river, a feeder of the Sutlej. Pinjore, the 

 principal village or town, with a fort, of masonry, is elevated 1,819 feet 

 above the Seebar, which is at the foot of the mountain, and near the 

 separating ground of the two river basins is 2,402 feet above the sea. 

 Munsie Debee, a temple in the plains, just without the Doon, is 1,263 

 feet. From these results an idea may be formed of its declivities. It is 

 not so well cultivated as the Dehra Doon, though it appears to pos- 

 sess equal capabilities. 



64. The Kyarda Doon is of less extent than the last, having in its 

 widest part but a breadth of six miles, and in length being but twenty- 

 five miles. This estimate of its length supposes it to terminate at the 

 Pass of Ghatusun Debee, where it narrows so much as to be scarcely 

 entitled to the name of a valley. From Ghatusun, the elevation of which 

 is 2,500 feet, the streams flow eastward to the Jumna. To the west- 

 ward flows the Markunda, which enters the plains under Nahun Siki, 

 on the Ghuggur. It loses itself in the sands of the Desert, so that we 

 cannot refer it either to the Sutlej or the Jumna basin. I have how- 

 ever considered it to belong to the former, and Ghatusun I suppose the 

 lowest point of the Indo-Gangetic chain. Of the Pattle Doon, I cannot 

 give any account, as I have never visited it. 



