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distant. Before, however, you can get there the Joala range has 

 to be crossed, which from thence to the Sutlej is very low, and might 

 be easily passed over without being noticed but for the difference in 

 its composition from the surrounding country, which is covered with a 

 boulder formation interstratified occasionally with coarse sandstone. The 

 Joala range on the contrary is composed of sandstone and marls of the 

 saliferous period.* 



34. About four miles further is the small village of Koorooe, the 

 residence of the Rajah of Muhulmooree, the ex-Rajah of Cotoche, 

 the grandson of the great Sansar Chund. The village is situated 

 in the midst of low rounded hills covered with coarse grass ; the road 

 from Nadoun to Bilaspoor is crossed between this and Bohota. Mr. 

 Vigne thus accurately describes the place : — "At a place called Kruhin 

 (Koorooe ?) situated in the midst of low and treeless hills covered with 

 rank herbage I found the residence of the ex- Raj ah of Tira, and his 



brother, the grandsons of the once powerful Sinsar Chund" " The 



residence consisted of two or three low thatched houses, and they were 

 in the receipt of 30,000 Rs. (3000^6) a year, which were collected 

 from the surrounding country by permission of the Maharajah" (Run- 



jeet Sing,-f " The elder of the two brothers, and the rightful 



Rajah of Tira, were very civil and gave me a breakfast on the morning 

 of our departure. Being Hindus they did not eat with me themselves, 

 but a table was placed for me beside them, and they talked to me 

 during the repast, which was served up in dishes made of dock leaves 

 sewn together, and my drinking cup was also of the same material. 

 The Sikhs are less particular in these matters than the natives of 

 Hindoostan, and will eat twice and oftener out of the same plate, 

 and many of the Sikh Sirdars are in possession of European China, but 

 the Hindu, more especially the Brahmin or the Rajput, of which 

 latter caste was the Tira Rajah, will not eat twice out of any vessel that 

 cannot be cleaned with earth, and consequently they are eternally scour- 

 ing their brazen cooking pots. When therefore they play the host the 

 Hindus (and the Sikhs also in many instances) cause their dishes to be 

 made of dock leaves (Butea frondosa) which are thrown away after they 



* Vide a report on the Kohistan of the Jullundhur. 



t For further particulars of this family vide travels in Cashmere, &c. by G. T. Vigne, 

 Esq. 



