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collection of mountain streamlets than the course of an important river. 

 At the junction of the Machneh river, these rapids cease, and the stream 

 is concentrated into one large deep pool to the head of the Mundaar 

 falls, a distance of 2 miles. 



8th. The Mundaar falls are almost as high and the descent of water 

 more perpendicular than the falls of Dharee, which in general character, 

 they closely resembled. Towards the southern hank a smaller stream 

 makes the same descent in a number of short drops, down which my 

 boat was dragged by 30 men, but in places it was almost carried. 



9th. From Mundaar to Basnia, opposite Chandghur, the river resumes 

 its usual character of pools and shallows. 



10th. From Basnia to within a few miles of Dharee, high abrupt 

 rocks rise on each bank of the river, which flows between them, 

 hemmed in to about \ its usual width with rapids almost every mile, at 

 one place it narrows to 34 feet ! 



1 lth. I reached Dharee at noon on the 7th of February, having thus 

 been 9 days on my way. 



12th. From my personal observations and the enquiries I was ena- 

 bled to make, I am of opinion that from the junction of the Ajnal river 

 to the bottom of the Mundaar falls the Nerbudda is useless for naviga- 

 tion. 



13th. From Basnia to near Dharee the river is only just passable, 

 and I fear that the number of men who would be requisite to take a 

 laden boat down it would make the cost of carriage equal to, if not 

 greater than what it would be on land. 



14th. It is impossible to conjecture how the rise of the river during 

 the rains may affect this last portion of the stream. It appears to me 

 that it would probably cover the difficulties, but the boatmen hold a 

 contrary opinion, and until a trial has been made in that season the 

 question must, I fear, remain undecided. 

 April, 1848 — Bharee. — The boats being laden below the falls were 



loosened from their moorings at sunrise on this date. 

 5th. (y mile) — Ringaye " tur"* Not difficult ; there is a good sandy 



beach or landing place here on the Poonase side, but the jungle must 



be cut for five or six hundred yards from the road to the landing 



place. 



* Tur, a rapid. 



