1848.] 



deputed to the Tibetan Frontier. 



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26th Dec. 



i 27th .. 



i 28th . . 

 ! 29th . . 



I 30th . . 



31st 



1848. 

 1st Jan. 



2nd 

 3rd 



Maneri. 



Shamsabad, 



Halt. 

 Bazar. 



Ali Maho- 

 med. 



Turn. 



Chargolai. 



Shahbag 



garhi, 

 Halt. 



No. of 



miles. 



18 



10 

 10 



II 



13 



Remarks. 



of large villages are numerous, and wa- 

 ter is at no distance from the surface. 

 So scanty however is the cultivation at 

 present that the people import both 

 wheat and rice from Swat, in exchange 

 for which they give coarse sugar, and 

 cotton and woollen cloths. In the after- 

 noon, I ascended the hill to the Fort of 

 Rani-gat which I believe to be the Aor- 

 nos of Alexander. 



In the morning I again ascended Ra- 

 ni-gat and made several measurements, 

 as well as a rough sketch of the Cita- 

 del. 



I returned to Shamsabad to make in- 

 quiries from Lieut. Robinson of the En- 

 gineers about several places of which I 

 had heard only confused accounts. 



Halted to make arrangements for ano- 

 ther visit to the Yusufzai district. 



Crossed the Indus at an island by two 

 ferries ; the stream on the 

 running very strongly. 



Proceeded to Lieut. Lumsden's camp 

 near Akord, to ascertain what parts of 

 the Yusufzai country were safe for tra- 

 vellers, and to learn from him whether 

 there were any ruins or inscriptions 

 worth visiting. 



Over an uncultivated plain, which has 

 in former times been a luxuriant sheet 

 of cultivation. 



Visited the Shahbag-garhi inscription, 

 and passed into Chargolai to make in- 

 quiries about the Kashmiri-garh, a cave 

 which is said to have its exit in Kash- 

 mir. I found it was not worth visiting. 



right bank 



On these days I made a copy, with 

 much difficulty, of the most legible por- 

 tion of the great inscription. A proper 

 copy can only be made by levelling the 

 ground and building up platforms, and 

 by whitewashing the surface of the rock, 



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