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ifiduced to return ; and the country ha:, m somemci? jre, recovered from 

 this severe blow. 



April i6th. The weather being stormy, wi'h rain, we halted, and re- 

 ceived the visit of BhairoTapah, who appeared to evince a more friendly 

 disposition than formerly; and as his route was naw about to separate 

 from ours, took measures, by registering our attendants, to gossird against 

 their desertion. He took his leave .with many expressions of friendship, 

 Wie made him some trifling presents at parting, and separated, under the 

 Thost flattering assurances of his good will, and desire to render us every 

 assistance. 



17th. Marched to JVdgal. The first part of the road lay by the side 

 of a beautiful Httle river, which turns four or five water mills, placed in the 

 dechvities of its bed. This machine for grinding corn, is of very simple 

 construction, and is in general use in this part of the country. It is com- 

 posed of two large round stones, about eighteen inches in diameter and 

 four in thieknes^s. ' The under one is fixed, and the upper one placed in a 

 perpendicular axle, at the lower extremity of which eight or ten spokes 

 are thrown out horizontally. On these the water is brought to descend, 

 from a sufficient elevation to give the machine a quick rotatory motion. 



The banks of this rivulet were lined with the willow and the raspberry 

 bush.; the fruit of which was ripe, of a deep yellow, with hardly flavor 

 enough to call to recolleGtlon:''the fruit of Europe. Wheat and barley 

 were produced in great abiindance, in the vallies, which possess a fertile 

 soil ; but the oppressive nature of the Gurc'hdli government, and the 

 heavy exactions which it lays on the labour of the husbandman, dis- 

 courage cultivation. This Parganah of Dhuriy lying between the Ga/z- 

 ges mdJuniria rivers, which are here forty miles distant, is said to have 



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