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Correspondence of the Commissioners 



[Feb. 



Date. 



13th Dec 



14th 



15th 



lGth 

 17th 



19th .. 

 20th . . 

 21st "1 

 to 23rd J 



24th 



25th 



Halting 

 place. 



No. of 

 miles. 



Nowasheh- 

 ra. 



14 



Chamba. 



14 



Haripoor. 



12 



Sultanpoor. 



13 



Hazru. 



18 



Halt. 



Shamsabad. 



6 



Halt. 





Ohind. 



9 



Nogram. 



16 



Remarks. 



Road more level and open than be- 

 fore. At 6 miles passed an octagonal 

 tope built on a square base with arched 

 recesses on each side, showing it to be 

 of a very late date certainly posterior 

 to the Mahomedan conquests. 



Road extremely muddy and slippery 

 for 3 miles ; then down the bed of a 

 stony Nullah and over level cultivated 

 fields to Chamba. On the road I no- 

 ticed several Hackeries, a sure sign of 

 a level country. 



Road good through an open and 

 generally level country well irrigated. 

 Received a present of 125 rupees from 

 the Sirdar Chet Singh. 



Road good down the left bank of the 

 Haru river. 



Crossed the Haru at 3 miles, thence 

 through ravines and low hills for 9 

 miles, and over the beautifully culti- 

 vated plain of Chach to Hazru. 



During these days I was suffering 

 from acute rheumatism, brought on by 



exposure during 1G days of snow and 

 rain without a tent, on my way from 

 Kashmir. Two of my servants were 

 likewise so ill, that they could not be 

 moved even from Hazrut to Shamsabad, 

 a distance of only 6 miles. 



Crossed the Indus by a capital ferry to 

 Ohind, one of the most ancient cities in 

 this country. The sands of the river are 

 washed for gold. The washers likewise 

 find numerous old coins and trinkets. 



Road skirting the hills on the north- 

 ern edge of the Yusufzai plain. I was 

 surprized to find the whole country from 

 Ohind to Hastnagar one vast plain, in- 

 stead of a hilly tract as it is represented 

 in all the maps, excepting only that of 

 General Court. This plain has once 

 been thickly populated : for the remains 



