SKiETeH OF THESIKHS.: 849 



SECTION 11. 



• NEITHER tlielHrrrts of this sketch, nor the materials from which it 'i*- 

 df?tUn, will' aclniii: of my "iving a particular or correal account of tHe 

 countries po^ses^sed'b-y the Sikhs, or of their forms of govefnftient, maiV- 

 ners and habits; but a^eursory'view of these subjects msy be 'useful, and 

 ttiay exciie and direcl that curiosity wiiich it cannot erp'.: ':; to "ratifV, 



Tf^r qQj.]Lntr-y:,r.c -/ ^ j-.s/ssed b3^the -Si/^hs, v/bich reaches.from.kt^tk^l 

 ■ qS"' 4p'- to i^eyo^.d,, Iftit^tje ^^,° N. and iocliades all the Penjaby^-j^ sm^Jll 

 p^xt oi-MuIfm, ^rid ,],n()st-of that tra6l of country, which liesbetween the 

 Jmnna md. the ^ailej , is boniidcd, to. the northward and westward^ dpy th§ 

 territories of th.e,kirig, of . Crbiili to, tli3 eastward, by the; possessions rqffth§ 

 ^lountaineer RdjuS of Jam;nii, .Kd4on,:md Srinagari^nd, to: the south? 

 ,-ward,.l?y,the territories of thq En^lisji g,g^Ye^mei)t,;aad ,the sandy^,4^er,f5 

 o^ -^^f^mi^^^dHd^ts^a^ lii^ck^^ .•^«^V«i.A^T ii oi Ixen ha^ ...iivoiq eirii 

 r.'L'THE S^ikhs, who inhabit '^he country "befVs^gen#^"iS?^/fJ'^^^^ ^^^Mmra\ 

 "tsr&'G&lled'Mdlawd Sinh,fsLiVd were -idiriost all" converted' froni^'ffie'^Hmii 

 -ixhe^oiJdts and Gujarsy'^he titte'^^of Mi?^«Jtf -^z^^Vas coiWe^l^ upon 

 theiti for their extraordina^-y "g.allafitryi 'iiMQMk^^Bdfd'gi Ba'^-^F, Wild i^ 

 •stated to have declared, that tfoe.cioi'ptnekigiiawW tdhthiffii,Qsfe(^'id' -ge 

 .fruitful a.s Mdlwd, one of -tha'pravmeesf 'a\Ti''/>^(^/>;d ffJie^ pYlhcipalGlarGfs 



* A general estimate of the value of ll\e country j possessed by the SiJ<:Jis, may be formed, 

 >.hen-it is statecl that'lt cciita-iSis;~'besrtft?4)t1iyr Cbvlnii-Ics,'^6W 



■which, agreeable to Mr. Bernieu, produced,- irrtbe-reign af-AuHi;jNGZE'ir,""two hundreil 

 'arul forty-six 7flcA-s and ninety-five thousand rupees ; or two mitlious, four hundred and 

 i^ixty-nine thousand, five hundred pounds s(<rling. 



f This province now forms almost the whole territory of Daulet Ka'o SindiV. 



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