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finding it the proper one from Byega to Terentee, I shall be the 

 better pleased as there will then be no necessity for going near 

 Keunjurgurh (which is far too much south,) and thereby all cause of 

 discontent will be removed. 



In the evening I ascended the highest spot of ground near the 

 village, from whence I had a noble view of the country to the east, 

 south, and west. The beautiful mountain described in yesterday's 

 journal is seen in all its grandeur, bearing south-east ; I took a rough 

 sketch of it and the country below it. £See the plate.] 



May 30th. Marched this morning at twenty minutes past 1 a. m. 

 and reached our ground at 7 o'clock, distance nine miles per peram- 

 bulator. I halted three times on the road, in all about an hour and a 

 half, to allow the palkee to come up ; I was led by a very rough path 

 but not so much as yesterday, for the descent upon the whole is more 

 gradual, with less jungle, and with care and ingenuity could be 

 improved. I passed through three villages on the road ; the first (which 

 is deserted) at four miles and forty yards is called Keeragurh, the second 

 at six miles and one furlong, Sura, — this one is a good size, and the boun- 

 dary of Keunjur and Lehra, it is at the bottom of the ghat at the head 

 of a long valley. At eight miles one furlong and one hundred and eighty 

 yards I came to a large village in Keunjur called Turmagurh, 

 three-quarters of a mile beyond which, or nine miles from Tungoora, is 

 the small village of Ballera, both are in the centre of an extensive 

 valley (bearing east and west) which is almost entirely cleared of 

 jungle, likewise several of the hills. During this morning's march I 

 searched in vain in the beds of all the nullas to find any traces of 

 limestone rocks, the pebbles and boulders consisted generally of quartz, 

 sienite, hornblende, felspar, greenstone, but no ores of any kind. 



I saw but few birds, but observed a great variety of moths and 

 butterflies of beautiful colors, and while resting under a tree I remark- 

 ed a peculiar kind of stick worm, which formed a coat of fine straws 

 and small pieces of bamboo leaves, the worm is about an inch and a 

 half long ; my attention was attracted to it by seeing a dry leaf travel- 

 ling along, there were many of them ; I was too fatigued to occupy my- 

 self with collecting either any of these or of the moths and butterflies. 

 There seems to be always something new to learn, and to amuse the 

 traveller ; while resting, some of my people wanted to light their pipes, 

 but there was no fire, one of the coolies volunteered to produce some, 

 which he did by the following means : — the man searched for a 

 piece of dry bamboo which he split in half, and with a piece of 

 iron made a small hole in the centre of one of the joints on the 

 inside, he then cut a small switch of a peculiar kind of pithy 



