4§2 A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



by the grain called Awajau now in ear, and watered by cuts from 

 the ftream begun near its Toured. The relief afforded to the eye 

 by dwelling upon this, after having been fo long tired with the re- 

 petition of bare rocks and of plains mod fcantily fprinkle'd with ver- 

 dure, is fuch as cannot be conceived except by thofe who chance to 

 have been in fuch filiations. The inhabitants have alfo been equally 

 induftrious in turning to account a fhelf of gently Hoping land at the 

 foot of the ridge watered by the large river. The regularity and luxu- 

 riance of the crop fliew that the foil would be very grateful if the farm* 



er would irrigate fufficiently. 



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Auguft 20th.— Halt at Dumpu. Thermometer 49°. The warmeft 

 day we have had fincc our arrival on the Undis. Amer. Singh arrived 

 at ten this morning. It appears that a dawk or poll carried by horfes 

 regularly goes from Ghzrtope to Ouchong {JLajfa) Esch horfe performs 

 twenty kosaday; and the journey takes up twenty two days at this 

 rate. So that, giving the kos as two miles, the diftance may be eflimat- 

 ed at 880 miles. The intermediate country is nioft thinly peopled. 

 The ihawl goats are from Latakh to Lijfa, where it is faid there are fheep 

 with finer wool than here. The Ouchong merchants buy woollen cloth 

 at Chertope from the Laiakhi and Judri traders. 





Thisday has been hot with the exception of about half an hour,. 

 during which we had a fmart fhower of hail. Thermometer at night 

 56 . We were obliged to halt this-day, on account 5 of our cattle being 

 much tired, not only from the continued' marching 1 that they have had y 

 but from their having feldom been able to fill their 'bellies on account 

 of the fcarcity of grafs in the courfe of our route. 



Auguft 21^- Thermometer i§\ Leave Dumpii at 8 h 50'. At 3.80 



