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once obviated, as there will be a high and dry road from Rajmahal to 

 Bhaugulpoor, and only four miles of hilly and jnngle road in the 

 whole route. The only engineering difficulty is the Morell Nuddie, 

 to the east of Burio, which during the rainy season brings down an 

 immense body of water and a quantity of trees, and although the bed 

 of the Nullah is from twenty-five to thirty feet deep, but very narrow, 

 the water occasionally leaves it and spreads over the country, this, 

 however, only occurs every fifth or sixth year and the water soon runs 

 off again. 



Purchased of the Sonthals at this place a quantity of plaited and 

 twisted cow tail hair necklaces, that are worn by both sexes. These 

 ornaments are made by the cow herds whilst herding the cattle, and 

 are of great beauty and delicacy ; many handsome necklaces of thirty 

 and forty strands, each strand composed of triple plaited hair were 

 offered for sale for four annas or six pence English money each neck- 

 lace. 



5th February, 1851. — Direction south, eleven miles, to Burhyte 

 road the whole way over basalt and black cotton soil producing fine 

 crops of rice, &c. The basalt everywhere resolving by the process of 

 exfoliation into a grey spotted wacke leaving the hard ferruginous glo- 

 bular nuclei scattered about the country. 



At Ruksee two miles north of Burhyte, is a spring of cold water 

 issuing in a fine stream from a red gravel bank, composed of pisiform 

 iron ore, and a red clayey soil ; the supply of water is seven hundred 

 and twenty gallons per hour, and supplies the village with good water. 

 A few yards to the south is a northern but weaker spring, the water of 

 which is not used. 



6th February, 1851. — Direction south, ten miles through a rugged 

 country destitute of roads, but well inhabited and well cultivated. The 

 view from the road at Jussiadih, looking over the Burhyte valley 

 back by the well occupied Chuperbhita hills is very pleasing. Ascended 

 and crossed over the basaltic hill Chooklo, passing through a hill 

 village by name Mori, where all the women were clothed no higher 

 than the waist. Descended into the Murgo pass to Putwara where 

 there is a hill village, the women of which were in the same costume 

 as at Mokri. The hills to the south of the pass are very high and 

 prettily broken into ravines well wooded, and the summits studded 



