3/6 The Turaee and Outer Mountains of Kumavon, [May, 



to Kotah, a mere pathway,lies for about, six miles through dense forest, 

 frequently crossing the stream : and then over the cultivated lands of 

 three clearings and settlements of the mountaineers, Huldoobujoonia, 

 Putulia, and Gintee. A little beyond the last are three large mango 

 topes, called the Okulee, Sheenath, and Bhurutgiri Bageechas, in the 

 first of which, covering 25 acres, is the usual encamping ground, by the 

 high road from Tiaree to Chilkiya. The elevation is probably 2000 

 feet or more above the sea. Immediately north, and perhaps 100 feet 

 •below the road, is the channel of the Dubka river, about a mile over 

 partly cultivated, but chiefly given up to thorny jungle and shingle. 

 Three distinct terraces are traceable in this channel, formed by the river 

 at various epochs : the main and highest bank, of boulders and gravel, 

 has been scooped out into a flat curve. Along this plateau proceeds 

 the road to Polgurh, where the river has forced its way through the 

 low ranges into the Plains : the land in this (S. \V.) direction is 

 beautifully cultivated for two or three miles, irrigated by Kools from the 

 Dubka, which is totally exhausted in the valley — being a very useful 

 servant, though a bad master. It carries off the drainage of a great 

 extent of lofty mountains, and the size and number of the boulders in 

 its bed fully confirm what the people tell of its volume and violence in 

 the wet season ; the attempt to cross is then frequently fatal, and hence 

 the name, from dubna, to overwhelm. 



The village of Kotah is a miserable place about three miles above the 

 Okulee Bagh, on the opposite bank of the river where it emerges from 

 the mountains by one of the most magnificent gorges in the world. 

 The course of the stream is here diverted by a bluff, on which are the 

 ruins of Kotah Gurhee, defended by thick stone walls, wooded preci- 

 pices, and cut off from the cultivated ground to the S. W. by a narrow 

 but deep ditch. The position is good, but so unhealthy in the rainy 

 season, that the Gorkhalee garrison, consisting of one company, was 

 forced to retire to Dola, another fortified post on a lofty mountain 

 behind. 



On the same bank, but lower down, and nearly opposite the Okulee 

 Bagh, is the romantic temple of Deveepoor, about 200 feet above the 

 river, on a low range of woody hills, here carved into a ridge by a con- 

 fluent stream which pours down a narrow, but wild and lovely dell 

 from the north -, in this paradise a man was killed by a tiger about six 



