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our encampment at the little village of Sunghole, which is pleasantly 

 situated near the river, and in the valley above mentioned. The Bar- 

 kur Khud throughout its whole length forms I believe the boundary 

 between the British and the Mundi Raja's territories. A part of the pic- 

 turesque valley above described, and which I propose calling the Sung- 

 hole Dhoon belongs to the latter. 



52. The march to Shujanpoor is about 9 miles in length. The 

 usual route lies along the left bank of the Beas, but we crossed it about 

 a mile below Sunghole, and passed over into Jeysingpoor, a part of which 

 belongs to the Meer of Raj-ghirri. He is a natural son of Futteh 

 Chund the traitor.* The pergunnah of Jeysingpoor is very level (at 

 least that portion of it which I saw) and contains many thriving villages 

 situated amidst luxuriant fields and shady copses. The adjoining per- 

 gunnah is that of Raj-ghirri, which appears almost as fertile. We passed 

 by the ruinous palace of Bijapoor and the cemetery of the rajas of Coto- 

 che ; I did not remark any thing worthy of notice about the tombs or 

 saw any inscriptions on them, but I am no antiquary, nor have I any 

 partiality for antediluvian fragments or for pillaging vespertillian abodes. 

 Roodur Chund, the Meer of Raj-ghirri, has a jaghir which produces him 

 an annual income of about 35,000 Co.'s Rs. He is an old man posses- 

 sing the usual amount, or rather deficiency of intellect, which most 

 native princes rejoice in. His residence is not worthy of description, 

 although it is prettily situated on the right bank of the river and in the 

 Sunghole Dhoon. 



53. The position of Shujanpoor Tira is difficult to describe. Any 

 person reading the account of that place in the Gazetteer of the coun- 

 tries adjacent to the North-Western Provinces would imagine that it 

 stands on a hill or some rising ground, whereas its situation is just the 

 reverse, or down in a dell ! It is built on the north-eastern half of a 

 level plain some 5 or 600 acres in extent, lying on the left bank of the 

 Beas, and enclosed on three sides by low, naked hills. The fourth or 

 north-eastern front opens into that part of the Kangra valley which I 

 have called the Sunghole Dhoon. It consequently enjoys a magnificent 

 prospect of the Chumba rangef and the low wooded hills in the rear of 



* For this man's history vide Moorcroft's travels. 



f The Chumba range, so often mentioned in this journal, is visible from the sum- 

 mit of Jacko at Simla, from N. 30° west to N. 70° E. Also from Koteghur, from 

 N. 8° E. to N. 28° east. 



