fSS ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY TO the Scu&ces o_^' ths 



guideSj or our attendant KishnSfnHj we have taien a wrong roadi, 

 which is coniiderably more toilfome thm that which leads acrofs the 

 river from Tear. In the one we were about to enter on, we were in- 

 formed that, confiderable obOacies would prefent themfelves from the 

 rife of one or two large nullahs, the temporary bridges of which had 

 been carried away by the floods. Diredions were given to ere^i others 

 for our paffage, but the indolence and natural .flowners of thefe peo- 

 ple, in the common bufiuefs of life, is fo great, that we could place lit- 

 tle reliance on their exertions, and we fet off without aoy certainty of 

 jreschipg Bdrdhdt thai: night* 



The manufaHures :;of Bijeher are remarkabJy '^fuperior to fchofe of 

 M-cwaen and Tacnaur both in material and workmanOiip ; the blankets 

 an^d woollen ftuffs of the former^ are frequently of great finenefs, clofe 

 in texture and of confiderable beauiy, while thofe of the iatter arc 

 coarfe, unfi^htly and bad ; the wool of the former, is of a finenefs equal 

 to feme of our bed En'^lifli wooj, while the produce of the latter 

 countries appeas to partate of the charafter of hair, and the thread 

 fpun from, it is bndly ftubborn, and rather calculated to produce a 

 coarfe hair cloth, than any comfortable warm woollen fabrick; the 

 reafon of this difference, is even lefs explicable than that of others, and 

 i^ is to be feared has its origin oBly in natural indolence and floth. For 

 pafture at ail events is equally good in ^^.Zi^am as in Bijeher^ and one 

 breed of fheep would in all probability thrive there as well as another, 

 Iceing tjiatthey fucceed perfedly well in a iimiiar climate* 



The fuperior flate ©f agriculture was notorious in every difl:ri£l of 

 Bifeher through which we pafledj and cannot entirely, though it may 



m fome, meafurej be referred to the more mntoward and impradicable 

 natiire of the, countries now under difcuffiooo The houfes in the for« 

 Hnicr are alfo more calculated for comfort io general than thofe of the 



