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Brahmin I procured a few of the coins which are found amongst 
the ruins. They are small, and irregularly shaped, with Sanscrit 
characters, and have occasionally a figure of a Hindoo deity on one 
side. 
August At six our tents arrived, and Gopinath followed soon 
afterwards, having settled every thing for the passage of the riven 
The charge for bringing over our party, amounting in the whole to 
upwards of three hundred, besides horses, bullocks, and carts, was 
twenty-five rupees. The morning was clear, we therefore did not go 
out. My servant killed a young peacock and a brace of partridges. 
I purchased two old and curious mohurs from a shroff, at four 
rupees above their intrinsic value. The night was very close and 
sultry, and though I slept without musquito curtains, or any cover- 
ing, yet could get but little rest on account of the heat. 
August 3. — At a quarter before five we mounted our elephants, 
and, accompanied by the cavalry as an escort, proceeded to a small 
distance beyond Jelalabad, where our tents were pitched, and break- 
fast was prepared. It is distant ten miles from our last station, and 
we were two hours and a half on the way. We met some bangys, 
bearing mangoes from Furruckabad to the Nawaub Vizier, and 
plundered a few of them. The country through which we passed 
was well cultivated, and a little undulated, the soil an unmixed 
sand, except where the ruins of Canouge are visible, of which I could 
perceive no traces after the first two miles. From the spot we are 
in, a range of hills is seen to the north, covered with mango 
topes: the Foujdar* of the village and country around waited on 
me with a nazur of five rupees. He was a most respectable look- 
* Military officer. > 
