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TERRI AGULLY. 
much regretted this last stage, as it delayed me so long as to pre- 
vent my visiting a very fine cascade in the neighbourhood of Sice- 
ligully. At six in the evening I again departed, and about eleven 
arrived at the celebrated pass in the mountains of Terriagully. As 
I walked up the hill by a narrow winding road, I passed the ruined 
gateway and fort, and for the first time regretted that the heat of 
the weather precluded my travelling in the day. The sides of the 
road were covered with jungle. I understood that tigers were not 
uncommon, and that sometimes, though rarely, a wild elephant 
passed the river, and committed his ravages in the vicinity. How- 
ever I met with neither, and soon retired to rest. 
February ^7. — When I awoke I found the beautiful scenery of 
the night had given place to the usual plain, covered with Euro- 
pean grain and mango topes. The hills however were visible at a 
distance. 1 found by the mile stones that I was eighteen miles from 
Bhaughulpore ; these are however not always to be depended on, 
from the alteration of the road, occasionally rendered necessary by 
the deep gullies worn by the torrents in the old one. I here beheld 
hundreds of nests of the Loxia, or Indian Baga, so well described in 
the second volume of the Asiatic Researches, which had built their 
secure abodes on a tamarind tree overhanging a tank, and kept up 
an incessant chirping. About four miles farther I first met with the 
convicts working on the public road. It was here formed on a very 
noble scale, nearly forty feet wide, elevated considerably when ne- 
cessary to preserve a perfect level, and to prevent its being over- 
flowed during the rains. Very good stone arches were erected at 
proper distances to enable the torrent to pass. It ran in a straight 
line, and put me much in mind of the works of the Romans. I hope 
