300 Oradus ad Aomon. [No. 4. 



very difficult of access. But it belongs to a district entirely separ- 

 ate and distinct from the Eusufzye where are sited Baja, Kal-durra, 

 Oora, &c. and almost equally distinct and distant from Beejapoor, 

 Owra and Masagorh in western Sohaut. The first march of Alexan- 

 der's army to attack Mt. Behoh would have brought him to the 

 bank of the Burrindoo. The transit of this stream near the 

 Indus, which must have been performed on rafts of inflated hides, 

 -would have occupied two days. But in Arrian's very particular 

 itinerary of this expedition, no river is mentioned, nor, supposing 

 the river to have been forgotten, is sufficient time for the passage 

 allowed. Mt. Behoh has no name like that of the Mahabunn as a 

 place of refuge, being too remote from the plains where invaders 

 are to be feared. 



In Sohaut. 



Of forts sited on hills, we have the following in Sohaut : 



"Woorna easily convertible into Aornos, the ruins of a town west- 

 ward of Kanikote on a hill about 600 feet high. It has not been a 

 strong place. It has two springs of water. 



Nawagye is thus described to me by a man who was long a pri- 

 soner in it. It stands upon a mountain about 1500 feet high (two 

 and half hours' ascent) belongs to the Momunds. 



Is sited near the declivity of the mountain. But has on the 

 other side a small plain. No river is near it. The mountains ap- 

 proach it on three sides. It is an insignificant place of no 

 strength. 



Mayar is a large town on the right bank of the Punjgowra river 

 about seventy miles above Tungi. It stands upon a mountain about 

 1500 feet high. But very easy of access and covered with soil. It 

 is upon the boundary of Bajore and belongs to a Syud. 



Maragowr is between Thanna and Birikot on a woody mountain. 

 It has water. This place is said to have sustained a siege of forty 

 years, and to have been taken owing to a quarrel between the chief 

 and his daughter. It has four bastions of masonry separated the 

 one from the other. Is now a ruin. 



Balimung is the ruin of a fort on a high mountain between 

 Shingurdhar and Galigye. On the western side it has a level plain, 

 on the other three sides precipices. 



