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the frontier is still maintained, although it originated during the time of 

 the Rajas, and was established for the mutual security of the boundaries. 

 From these villages indemnilieation was sought, from the adverse party, 

 for any predatory acts of aggression; but we may conceive the institu- 

 tion to have been founded more upon mistrust than any sound policy ; 

 for, while these joint possessions remained sacred, the adjacent places 

 were not less open to pillage ; and the demand for restitution was not 

 likely to have been made, or grante Jj in an amicable manner. The- 

 two parties, however, placed here, might act as spies, and be aehecfc. 

 against any open incursion, 



14th. Therm. 717°. The night had been tempestuous, and the morn- 

 ing set in with heavy rain. When a fair interval was obtained, we com- 

 menced our march ; and arrived at P'haiiah.d. village containing five or 

 six houses, in one of which, the greater part of our baggage being left 

 far behind, we took up our abod>e foir the night. Lat. 29*^ 49 4@". 



On this day's march, we crossed' four rivers, viz. the Gaumat'hl, in 

 which the water was about waist deep; the Garilda-Gangd, about thirty 

 feet in breadth and three in depth, but very rapid, the Basrul, of which 

 the stream was equally violent, having fallen, immediately above the ford; 

 from a shelving ledge of rock, six or eight feet high ; and the Causila, 

 the water of which was also three feet deep, but the current so stron^^ 

 that it was very difficult to maintain a footing. Between the Basrill and 

 this river, we crossed a G'hdt called Cachhmah. About two hundred 

 feet above the base, is a large Chabutra called Masret Chawra ; whence, 

 in half an hour, we arrived at a Mugra called Berhdm Deo-ca-JVau, 

 It is a square building of stone, about ten feet high, with a flat roof. The 

 bottom of it is a small cistern three or four feet square, supplied with 



