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BAGH. 



Chloroideum, Sinapis, Raphanus cultivated with Taira meera, two 

 Cruciferous plants common, Salsola lanata also occurs. Water abun- 

 dant in a channel of fifteen yards wide and three feet deep, clear and 

 tasteless. Furas the most common shrub. No grass occurs but 

 the remains of Panicum. Wheat is here sown in drills, in some 

 places the crop is promising. The country is evidently occasion- 

 ally overflowed, witness the indurated surface and the fissures, 

 which away from the road, renders it bad for camels, being full of 

 holes. 



There are several villages visible round our camp, all of the usual 

 miserable description, and there is a good deal of Bagree cultivation. 

 The water does not extend more than a mile ; it is eight feet deep, 

 and about twenty yards wide towards the head, where the bund is 

 thrown across. 



March 1st. — To Bagh nine and a half miles. The country is quite 

 similar : the chief plants continue to be Chenopodium cymbifolium, 

 Kureel, a Rairoo, Ukko, Joussa, and Salsola robusta, but occur in no 

 great plenty, they and all the face of the country exhibit marks of 

 inundation. Bagh is visible a long way off from its being ornamented 

 with a gamboge, or ochre-wash, otherwise its aspect is poor and 

 muddy. We came on the Naree about three miles from the town, 

 and as it has been bunded, it is full of clearish blue water, to a good 

 depth. We encamped about one and a half mile on the south side 

 of the town. About the head of the bund there is a good deal of 

 wheat cultivation, and some mustard. In these khets Reseda is very 

 abundant, Heliotrope is also common ; I picked up a Matthiola and a 

 Pommereulla. The banks of the Naree are clothed with small 

 Furas, which in these parts are always encrusted with saline matter, 

 or, as it would seem, pure salt. Rock pigeons both sorts, Loodianah 

 rats, etc. 



Bagh is celebrated for gunpowder ; it is a largish, straggling, but 

 poor place, though thickly tenanted. Its latitude is 29° 1' 20", and 

 is placed thirty miles too far south in Tassin's last map. Sugar-candy 

 from Bussorah and cloth, are the principal articles sold. 



4th. — Marched sixteen miles to Mysoor : direction at first NNW. 

 and latterly west, close to the Brahorck hills. Water is plentiful <n 

 bunds and river, but the country is very very bare, Salicornia robusta 

 uncommon, Plantago canescens, Poa, Cynodon, Ukko is very common, 

 otherwise Kureel is the predominant plant. A good deal of wheat 

 cultivation, every thing depends on water : the wheat along water- 



