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'Verwhd it has fallen much to decay, and four half ruined hamlets 

 -alone remain ; ihe^Qare.GundiatsPeralfCimola, snid Celar ; the two 

 former are near the head of the plain. The whole forms a part of the 

 didrid: or jmrgunnah of Rewaen^ and had been given by the late Raja, 

 Parduman Sah, to his brother Prit hum SaHj who lived for 6 or 7 

 years in feveral parts of it ; his chief relidence, however, wi^^lGundiat, 

 The Raja himlelf frequently came here with his brothers to hawk in 

 the valley J they rode upon Gounts^ or Bliotia poneys, and killed 

 |>artridg€s, which are there abundant. 



From the foot of Sircot proceeds another dream which runs in a 

 valley, named Gadu-Gdd'/i, and which, after a courfe of about 6 miles, 

 joins the Tonfe, nearly the fame diftance above AnhuL This is alfo 

 faid to be a fine level, and formerly well cultivated valley, frora^ |- io 

 a mile and half wide ; but far inferior to Edma Serais which feems to be 

 allowed the largeft and fined in the whole country, excepting the Dun^ 

 and to have been confidered a place of delightful retirement for the 

 co-art in the days of the greatneis of GerwhdL 



Regaining the road, and palHag through the ruined village of 

 Thallt, we defcended a fteep rocky path, very irregular and zig zag, to 

 the bed of SdrigarUGdd'h. The moathi through which the water has 

 forcibly worn its way between oppoung rocks, is narrow, and has pro- 

 bably yielded to the force of torrents much flower than the foil of the 

 rocks behind, which may, in Tome meafure, perhaps, account for the 

 fingol:;;'v' di[f ant n ture of Bdma Serai valley from thofe ravine-'' 

 whica uri.verfdlly divide the hills. The flream is a line copi^J^s one. 



Tfik rock here, as well as that we have to-day defcended, is princi- 

 pally lime-ftone, very hard above, and mixed with fand (lone. That 



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