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range, on which Jauntgurh is fituated, with a general view of theccmrfe 

 of the Jumna, from the fnowy mountains to Calfi % but this was pre-^ 

 vented by a thick fog wliich enveloped the tops of the mountainSj 

 and only now and then gave to view apeak, glimmering through mill. 

 From hence we entered on a very deep defcent into the bed of a fmall 

 |)ut rapid ftream, called Gotn(Xr'Ci'''Ga d'hi The valley of hollow of 

 which this forms the drain, is fingularly formed by the meeting; of 

 2W0 hills, or ranges by a fmall ridge, no great diilance from the river % . 

 and the mouth is far more narrow than the hollow above. It contains • 

 thQ Bander-Chat, (or divifion) and there is a confiderable quantity of r 

 dttatched cultivation, wheat,' barley, rice, cotton-, and a grain, called ' 

 *rto^, refembling bird-feed,' fcatte red through it; the rice here as ira ■ 

 other parts of the hills is neatly cu'tivated on levelled "ledges, over 

 which water is led in fmall courfes, taken from the flream far abovCo 

 It is a wild and rugged r.iviae, and : the hills rife very; fuddenly lQ.> 

 their height, . 



The defcent from CliamnCa'G'kdt is' very irregular and zig-zaf^-j 

 fevere and painful ; paffing through C<?i'A^/, a village deftroyed by the 

 GorchaS'^, we croffed the Gothar nullah, and reached the village of Lak'kd 

 Manda/^ fituated almoft on the banks of the river. This- village is claimed 

 both by Gerwhal diud Si'rmar^ it cultivates the land* of each ftate, and 

 pays tribute to both ; it feems entirely appropriated to the maintenance 

 of feveral temples^. and their priefts, and there are fome fine rich 

 pieces of land on the banks of the Jumndyas well as of a nullah, a (hort 

 way further on, fet afi.de for this holy purpofe; for which the villa«ye 

 is afleUed by each (late. There is a neat temple to S'iVA, a place of 

 worfhip to the five brothers, Bhi'm Sen, Abjun, Yudhisht'jiir, Saha- 

 Dso, N Acu L A , known by the name of the Pandavan, a temple to Bairam, 

 on& to Par af ar am, and an old ruined one to M a h a Deo, under the name of 



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