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sions. The hill people regard, these places as sacred ^ and never fail i-q> 

 show their respects, by a reverential obeisanee. A short distance beyond 

 this Devata is a Chahutra, which denotes the boundaries of the Gerwdl 

 and Camdun districts. As we proceeded, the road became wider and- 

 better, and the prospect opened around us on every side. 



Our feelings were in perfect union with the scene, and we experiei-?-? 

 ced a pleasure to which we had for some days been strangers« Our 

 minds were now relieved from anxiety, by the idea of having escaped 

 from a land of tyranny and oppression ; and we contemplated with satis- 

 faction the surrounding scenery, which our internal sensations, no doubt, 

 tended to embellish. The view was no longer con fmed within a straig-ht- 

 ened valley, or bounded by an invidious chain of rugg-ed peaks ; butj 

 taking an extensive range over six or seven undulatory ridges, was ter** 

 minated by the horizon, at the distance of twen^y or thirty miles. Tha 

 contrast of the two sides of this G'hdt was too remarkable to pass unno=« 

 ticed. The \n\\s oi Camdon appear to rise in a regular gentle acclivity, 

 from their bases, and the soil is of rich earth, giving birth to fine ver- 

 dure and extensive forests. The country divides also into vallies tole- 

 rably spacious, which the hand of tillage has rendered fertile. The 

 cultivation Is more extended, and carried higher up the mountains thaa 

 ill Gerwdl; while the neat little hamlets, dispersed along the foot of the 

 hills, prove its population and riches to be proportionally greater. Sq 

 apparent is this difference, that we could not help stopping every now and 

 then, to remark how nature and art seemed to vie with each other in the 

 varied landscape. On ascending the bank of a pretty streamlet, we ar- 

 rived at the village of Culaur, part of which belongs to Camdon and 

 part to Gerwdl. This system of a partition of the villages bordering ob 



