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plains extending as far as the eye could reach. The bamboos were 

 very plentiful, and we observed many fir trees about Nahun. We 

 saw an animal like a pole-cat, about a foot long, with tail of the same 

 length, and somewhat bushy. The head sharp, like a fox's, and 

 nearly black. The tail and upper-part of the body black, the lower 

 part light coloured. When shot at, it jumped from the top of a tree 

 to the ground, and was making off, when caught and killed by 

 the dogs. Saw a species of pheasant ; shot one, in shape like the 

 English, white plume on the head, red about the eyes, but without 

 any beauty of plumage. Saw several wild cocks and hens, much 

 like the domestic, but could not shoot one. We have a fine prospect : 

 on the right and left hills and valleys richly clothed with trees, and 

 in front the town of Nahun at our feet, over which the tops of a 

 few hills, and beyond those an immense extent of plains. The 

 Rajah has a large palace of stone, plastered with white chunam, 

 and finely situated. From this the town extends along the brow of 

 the mountain to a rising ground on the right (on which is a Thakoor 

 Dwara or temple) occupying a small plain. The place is of a res- 

 pectable size, and has a good appearance ; the houses being chiefly 

 of stone, faced with white chunam, with flat roofs, very neat outside, 

 and apparently clean within. The bazar is very good and paved. 

 There are two tanks, but the water is neither very deep nor pure : 

 close to one are the tombs of four officers killed in the retreat from 

 Jythuck, a hill fort about four coss to the north, in an attack on 



which our droops were driven back by the Goorkhas, in A. D. . 



There is also a handsome stone obelisk to their memory, but without 

 a tablet or inscription, though there is a place evidently designed for 

 the former. 



1 5th. Thermometer 59° at sunrise. Walked out with our guns 

 to a forest of firs. They seem to be of two kinds : one, the trunk 

 of which is straight and tall, and devoid of branches to some height, 

 when they spread out considerably : the other species is smaller, 

 the foliage richer, commencing from near the bottom, and ending 

 in a conical form ; the latter I have seen in Meeruth. Found no 

 game. 



\1th. Muheepoor — 9 coss.- The road appeared to us difficult, but 

 we were told it was nothing in comparison to what we should sec 



