"HO time for preparing a AVarm dinaer as intend- 

 ed, we partook sonie of cold meat and tlie Chi- 

 naman's Lilliputian Tea cups, and departed at 

 one quarter before three — the road f f om hence 

 to Carta-soora was still deep, the soil beingof a 

 softei' and more teiiacious clav, and^ though 

 much dried up since we past it on the 19th, was 

 still deep in many places; but especially the 

 green height crossed in our way to the junction 

 of the road at Carta-soora, which is a black 

 mouid producing no corn, and the very worst 

 part of the road I had ever crossed, so deep, te- 

 iiacious and clammy. To the right a Tank, bor- 

 dered by an embankment and planted with trees, 

 a feeble recollection of the Tanks of the 

 Carnatic, and a Bungalo on a smali Island, ia 

 place of the Temples we thcre sce in such 

 insular situations. I hoped to have examined 

 this prototype of a Country ever dear to me, in 

 viewing the ruins of Carta-soora, but was dis- 

 appointed ; for though we got out of our con- 

 veyance and were conducted through many a 

 desolate briek walled Court, within the inclosure 

 of the brick rampart of the ancient Dallam, I 

 found so little prospect of reaching in time this 

 favorite spot, that I returned diigusted^ ihcd 

 'di.d diiaDpoialed. 



