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which lies the town, a large and thriving place. A small garden enclosed 

 by high walls, in the centre of which the Rajah has built a small two- 

 storied house after an English model, likewise adj oins the zenana. The 

 rooms are covered with elegant paper, the windows and doors are glazed 

 and have curtains hanging on each side moving on brass rods. The 

 furniture consists of a rose wood table, chairs, sofa, chandeliers, mir- 

 rors, and pictures, whilst excellent Brussels carpeting covers the floor. 

 The pictures consist of an engraving of the Queen in her coronation 

 robes, and then of Her Majesty taking a ride in Windsor Park, and 

 one of Prince Albert, shewing the bust encircled with a wreath of sham- 

 rock, thistle, &c. I am able to give but few particulars of Mundi-nuggur 

 which are not already known.* It is divided into three parts. The 

 town is built within the angle between the left banks of the rivers 

 Sookeyt and Beas : a space between the town and the mountains in the 

 rear being set apart for the lowest caste of the inhabitants. The next 

 portion may be called the suburbs, which consists of scattered dwellings 

 on the slope of the Gogar range, which terminates abruptly on the 

 right bank of the Beas. The last lies between the right bank of the 

 Sookeytee and the left of the Beas. It is a level piece of ground, of a 

 triangular figure and about seven acres in extent. This field (for it is 

 nothing more) has an excellent road all around it (on which the Rajah 

 takes his drives in a buggy) and may be styled the mall. Our tents 

 were pitched on the centre of this plateau. The town has a neat appear- 

 ance from the circumstance of all the houses having slated roofs. On 

 the summit of a spur behind the town, the Rajah has built a neat Hin-, 

 du temple ; he was also building another on the left bank of the Beas. 

 He has caused many of the streets to be widened and levelled to enable 

 him to drive about in his gig. Perhaps at no distant day the inhabi- 

 tants may be indebted to the vanity of their ruler for wholesome 

 sanitary reforms, as they are already for facilities of travelling. I fancy 

 that pigeons are held sacred, as there are several cotes in the principal 

 streets filled with that sort of bird. The sides of the enclosing moun- 

 tains are precipitous, and mostly covered with dense jungle, in which 

 hogs and various kinds of deer abound. The climate is as hot as that 

 at Rampoor on the Sutlej during the hot weather and rains, but snow 

 falls at both the places during the winter. The vegetation is decidedly 

 * Vide Thornton's Gazetteer of the Provinces adjacent to India. 



