•JUMNA AND BHA-GrJlArHi' RlVERSo S3B 



latter, though this difference is more .perceptible, internally than exter* 



' The circumfiances in which thefc countries or diftriSs are placedg 

 though they appear to be pretty iimilar, diflFer perhaps in feme points i 

 and it is but fair to ftatc them, as it is poffible the difference of chara^ler^, 

 above remarked, may in fome degree at kaft be referred to thenar 



TtfE Gorv'has have i[u\td'mGerwMl For'ne^f twelve yfears/previous te 

 which a fevere contefl had been EQaintained, which drained the coun« 

 try of men and money. Tiiey appicar to hive borne in mirid, in their 

 fubfequent condu6l to this unfortunate State, the trouble it cofl' them to 

 win it, and a6led as if determined to revenge it. 'Its old famiUes were 

 deftroyed; all'thofeperfons of rank snd importance who were taken^, 

 were murdered or banifhed ; its villages burnt or deftrOyed i and grea£ 

 liQmbeis of its isahabitants were fold as fiives. The remaining part 

 were op pre fled by heavy ta^es: and many voluntary banifhmeRts and 

 emigrations took place, to avoid a tyranny too oppreflive to be borne, 

 and too powerful to be withftood. Thus, throughout great part of 

 'Gerwkdl, the iraYcller fees but the ruins of villages, and the traces of 

 former cultivation riow abandoned : while, the inhabitants that remains 

 are, in all probability, ^he mod ignorant and the loweflj and it may 

 fairly be prefumed, have funk lower in exertion and mindj from the 

 OpprefTion they have groaned imdex, 



Yh^ Gorc%ds have only fuccceded in fubje£ling the flate or province 

 of B^/^^^r, within thcfe 3 or 4 years paft, and its fubjedion was far lefs 

 complete than that of GerwhdL The conquerors have had lefs time, lefg 

 opportunity, and probably faw that they dared icfs to deftroy the 

 country and villages, or murder and difperfe the inhabitants ; the re« 

 moterdidrids they fcarcc penetrated intOj and the certainty wc trace 



