J 844.] and on Gerard's Account of Kundwar. 253 



At jo. 325, vol. II, Moorcroft says, " On the right bank (of the At- 

 tock,) at the place where it turns, is the rock of Jelalia, and opposite 

 to it that of Kamalia, between which is said to be a dangerous 

 whirlpool." 



Elphinstone, II, 96, says, " In the midst are the famous rocks 

 Jelalia and Kamalia, but the whirlpool of which we had heard so 

 much, did not rage at the season when we passed." These rocks 

 are not in the middle of the river as stated by Elphinstone, nor on 

 opposite sides as mentioned by Moorcroft ; but both are in the right 

 bank ; nor, excepting in a sort of bay, could a whirlpool be formed in 

 a narrow and rapid river. The danger consists in crossing the stream 

 when flooded, for to be dashed against the projecting rocks would be 

 certain destruction, and the object is to direct the boat free of the up- 

 per rock, and into the bay above the lower one, so as to effect a land- 

 ing where the water is comparatively quiet, that is, just below and 

 under shelter of Kamalia. There is no whirlpool properly so called, 

 that is, the rocks and rapid stream are to be feared, and not the in- 

 gulping powers of the eddy. 



Report on the Agricultural and Land produce of Shoa. By Captain 

 Graham, Bengal N. I. of the Mission to Abyssinia. 



11 Natura beatis 

 Omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoveret uti." 



1. The different modes of tilling the ground practised among the 

 various nations of the earth, are well worthy of observation and re- 

 mark, as the progress of agriculture exhibits the progress of the 

 population in comfort and civilization, and thus forms one of the 

 most important chapters in the history of national manners ; and 

 indeed the tracing its gradations through the various customs of dif- 

 ferent people, from the first glimmering bestowed upon the located 

 savage, to the full development of the science of husbandry in the 

 most civilized society, is a curious as well as a profitable task, for its 

 present state may be taken as a tolerable criterion, whereby to judge 

 of the relative position which the people hold in the scale of nations. 



