894 A few Notes on the subject of QNo. 155. 



to Delhi, Baz Bahadoor Chund was honored by many signal marks 

 of favor, but not content with obtaining empty titles, he adhered to the 

 original object of his visit, and procured the full recognition of his 

 right to the Chourasee Mai, together with an order, addressed to the 

 Viceroy of the Sooba, for effectual assistance against the Kuttair 

 chiefs. Through the aid of Nuwab Roostum Khan,* he succeeded in 

 expelling his enemies from the Turaee, and he afterwards caused the 

 town of Bazpoor to be built, and to bear his name. It is said that " every 

 beegah and biswansee" was cultivated at this time, and that the 

 construction and repairs of bridges, bunds and water-courses was dili- 

 gently cared for by the officers of government. These functionaries 

 resided at Roodurpoor in the plains, and at Barokheree and Kotah on 

 the spurs of the lowest range during the hot months. Casheepoor 

 was not then a place of any importance, and the Puharrees, (I know 

 not how correctly,) even place the foundation of the present town and 

 gardens at a period more recent than the Rajas hitherto named. At 

 Kotah and Barokheree and elsewhere in the lower hills are remains of 

 forts and residences, and mango groves, which go far to shew, that the 

 climate at those sites was not in former times so insalubrious as at 

 present, when few men in power would confine their retreat from the 

 Turaee heats to such low elevations in the mountains as these. Kotah, 

 indeed, is stated to have been the capital for all the western portion 

 of the Chourasee Mai, and to have given its name to the lower Per- 

 gunnahs, and not only, as now, to the near submontane region. The 

 good fortune of Baz Bahadoor Chund followed him to the end. 

 He wrested the dominion of the Bhote passes from his Northern 

 Tartar neighbours ; — he associated his name with universal prospe- 

 rity in the minds of his Kumaonee subjects ; — and he died, after a 

 rule of forty years, in the year 1678 a.d , during the reign of Au- 

 rungzebe. 



8. If I were writing a connected history of Kumaon, the five succes- 



History continued to the sions of Ra J ahs between Baz Bahadoor Chund 

 time of the Kohillas. an d Kullean Chund, would afford me ample ma- 



terial, both for narrative and comment : for during this period the 

 prosperity of our hill principality having attained its culminating 



* The founder of Moradabad. 



