596 Notes upon a tour through the Rdjmahal Hills. [No. 7. 



string hammocks; at another " Gosainthan" as these spots are called, 

 I found the horizontal pole supporting numerous bamboo bows and 

 arrows, battle-axes made of bamboo with date leaf blades, and nume- 

 rous date leaf rings ; at a small distance removed and laid in the foot 

 path, were several small earthen-ware cups filled with blood mixed 

 with spirit, and near the cups was a bundle of staves and bamboos 

 such as are used by the hill-men when walking. The whole of these 

 articles are offerings made to Bedo Gossain either as votive offerings, 

 for expected or hoped-for blessings, or as offerings of thankfulness for 

 benefits received. 



At sunset, I ascended the Sendgursa hill by a very steep ascent, 

 from the summit of which I had the finest view of coup d'ceil yet 

 obtained of the hills ; the hill is about two thousand feet above the 

 sea, and from its summit I could see the following remarkable land- 

 marks ; the Monghyr hills to the north-west, distant eighty miles, 

 with a G. T. S.* on the hill Maruk : the G. T. S. Mundar hill in 

 Bhagalpur half way, or forty miles distant. The Ganges at Bha- 

 galpur, distant sixty miles in N. N. W. direction ; the long reach 

 of the Ganges extending to Rampur Bauliah, seventy miles in an 

 E. S. E. direction ; the whole of the country lying between the foot 

 of the hills and the military station Berhampoor on the Bhagretti, 

 extending over fifty miles. To the south G. T. S. on the Satbor hill 

 in Belputta, distant forty miles appeared topping the whole of the 

 Katicoond carboniferous range. To the W. S. W. distant fifty miles 

 the Teeur hill another G. T. S. and all the small detached hills of 

 Beerbhoom, as well as the hills of Hendweh and Pusseje appeared, 

 amongst the latter are the Nugwan and Puchpuhar hills both G. T. S. 

 In a S. W. direction, the great Parusnath mountain is visible, distant 

 one hundred miles. This mountain, in height nearly five thousand 

 feet, has a G. T. S. on its summit and forms the culminating point of 

 the rocks of the great primitive plateau extending from Beerbhoom to 

 the Dunwah Ghaut. 



To the S. S. W. the view extends over the Burdwan coal fields ; 

 and to the S. S. E. over the whole of the eastern portions of Beer- 

 bhoom and Burdwan ; with the whole of the southern Rajmahal hills 

 and surrounding forests, as a foreground, whilst the view of the hills 

 * G. T. S. Great Trigonometrical Survey Station. 



