tS0: -ACGOUNT Qw A JOURNEY so ths Soukcss o? ths 



So far as the people of the place — pundit, brahmins^ and zemindgrs 

 were queftioned, merely about their own diRrid and the places conti- 

 guous, their anTwers were didinO; and prompt, with every appearance 

 of. being correct to the bed of their apprehenfion, Uat when any at* 

 lempt was made to carry them further abroad, OFfto cQlleclany thiog 

 of, the topography of the country beyond this great range, they ivlcd. 

 altogether : either at once faying they .kaew nothing-about the matters 

 or giving improbable inconfillent accounts. .Some of them ,a(fertedj 

 that there was a plain and well .cultivated country at", no greater dif- 

 lance than 32 cos (horizontal diftance) from the other fide of Rudra 

 Bimala ; but, from the nature of the country it .waS'not poffible to 

 -Teach it, except by a very circuitous route. But whether they alluded 

 to the great plains of *T<27"t<2?;)', or to fome intervejsing valley, it was 

 impoSble to difcover, :They however ailerted, that . it tBightbe fecB 

 from fomeof she high pc?ik.s in the neighbourhood,- which I moll be« 

 lieve tQ be falfe, or at befl very doubtful: as I think there cannot be 

 any means of afcending a point high enough to afford fuch a viev/ 

 any place near this foot* 



■^ROM the time. wc entered the bed of the liver -^above Sue hi one 

 .fpecies of flone has chiefly predominated. A hard white fione per° 

 va.ded more or lefs y/ith black fpots, flreaks and ilars, .an^ -frequently 

 vi/ithmicai the llria6iure is remarkable, and thoogh the colour, the 

 compofitiong and proportion of the iiO gradients vary, flill it is quite jhe 

 fame ilone : I am much inclined to beheve it is a fort of granileit it is 

 much like that flone firfl rnet with in i\i&^ Paber*s bed, though m general 



-*■ Iff fuel) « pl.in do esift, ii cannot Well, I liiijik, be near ihe g'Cit plains on ihe N<. E. and b„ of ihc 



JiVwia/rya, as the n ues 1 e have ohjaincd iTrom m re c tditable authnrities, jrap'y the caiftencc of a faj 



greatef ea-rnt of hills ^retching even to ihe (oaihwaxd o( Ka/pjm. The plain was repoifed, I ehint, fo.be 



diKdly b. hind the CfyuVroaumaioj. which u eontlnuootvyilh, indccil, a jmiJ oiHudra JtlimaIa,.iLQ did 



, ss'it belong lo Geiiubdl. 



i This coijiaurcjias bctn.fincc fall)' JaUilfilj m fdcunific ro«ffl -bave: pionosaced ihs i{)teiin«wi iu te. 

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