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These Garrowszvz called by the villagers and upper hill people Coumh 

 Gar rows , though they themfelves, if you afk them, of what can: they 

 are, will anfwer Gar rows, and not give themfelves any appellation of can% 

 though there are many cads of Garrows, but with what differences I had 

 not time to afcertain. 



The foil is of a line black earth, here and there intermixed with fpots 

 of red earth : its richnefs is plainly feen from the quicknefs of vegetation. 

 The rice is in many places equal to the Benares long rice. The muftard 

 feed is twice as big as any produced in the pergunnahs of Bengal, where 

 I have been, and the oil it produces, is as fuperior to, as the fize of its 

 grain is greater than, any other. The hemp is equally good, but, as to its fu- 

 periority to what may be produced in other pergunnahs, I am unable to 

 fpeak with certainty : as far as I can judge from my own obfervation, the 

 fort brought to the Calcutta market, is not equal to what is produced on the 

 borders of the hills. The paflure for cattle may be claffed next in quali- 

 ty to that of P/aJ/y plain ; and this I infer from its being generally known, the 

 Sheerpour and Svfung ghee is nearly as good as that made at Plajfy. 



Tbere are rivers at the feveral paries. Thofe of note are the Natie, Maha~ 

 reefee, Summajjerry, and Mahadeo. On the wed fide of the Natie is Ghofegong, 

 and on the eafr. the Sujfcor pafs. Abrahamabad or Bygombarry is on the 

 eaft fide of the Maharecfee ; Aughur, on the eafl of Summujferry ; and Bur- 

 radowarrah, on the weft of Mahadeo. Thefe rivers are all of a fandy and 

 gravelly bottom, with much lirneftone and iron. The Mahadeo has abun- 

 dance of coals, the oil of which is efteemed in the hills as a medicine for 

 the cure of cutaneous diforders, and is reputed to have been firft difcovered 

 to the hill people and villagers by a Fakcer. The mode of extracting the 



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