1^- 'Account -d^ '^MiSKNEY' TO the Sovrcm of tfs 



ard feniible of impreffions^'a? if a eonverfatton had paffed, which ge-^ - 

 nerally relates to fome future event. Indeed this prophetic facility' is>/ 

 orie of the chiefly remarkable attributes of the place. The officia%i'FigJ, 

 Brahmins, fometimes venture furtherthan the vulgar, attd are favoured^- 

 with communications of future import It is faid they foretold the mis- 

 fortunes and death' of the late R-aja PArduman- Sab;-, the lofs- of -his-. 

 kin o-dom and life at D^/zr^ Z)2^!V?- and the commencement of rather. 

 completion of the Gark%a Raj'^i The awe and horror which the natives-; 

 entertain for this place, is great and- remarkable, T hey affert the im^ 

 poffibility of penetrating the valley, to any confiderable height, and that . 

 none, who had attempted it, ever returned without the lofs of reafooa . 

 I believe the phyiical obilacles to afceoding. jhe hill would be enougliH 

 to prevent fuccefso. 



July iz^Ji.—^^oui the nullah (which is croITed by a fingle Hick) -wq- 

 rofe to the village of Pdlia^. where v/e refted for the nighty. and which-? 

 is fituated above the nullah c^Wtd Pa lia Gad k, ^nd not far belov/ 

 the gorge of the glen of Cot ha. It is> neat and clean and of confi- 

 derable fize, and has lefs the appearance of decay than mod ofxr 

 thofe we have paffed,, but is not fo thriving or large as Duckheat,\. 

 our lad night's flation; it is furrounded by a few fields and ledges., 

 of cultivation which occupy the remainder of the fpot on which ^ 

 the village Hands, but they are of no great, extent, nor is there 

 any more near at hand ; we took noticcy that many of the inhabitants 

 were particularly fair, and f hey were fine flout looking men. The 

 fcenery in this day's march has affumed a character far more favage 

 than we have remarked in any part of our tour ; there is lefs v/ood, 

 more rock, and the mouutains rife more fuddenly to their heighth^. 

 without affording the pofTibihty of; cultivation, even m the narroweff: 

 ledges 5 .the weather too is .darkeFj and the rain which all day ha4.t^ 



