Notice respecting Dr Wallich’s Journey in Nepaul. 87 
years since you were in the place. The British Residency is 
about a mile and a half from Kathmandu ; and is a very neat 
building, surrounded by a most charming garden, full of Euro- 
pean trees and plants, which, as you may imagine, thrive here 
excellently. There are, besides, several other buildings, for the 
accommodation of the officers attached to the escort. We have 
an excellent carriage-road to Lalita Patun ; a fine bridge having 
in that direction been thrown over the Vagmati, and another to 
Balaji, besides a number of fine rides. 
The chief minister, during the minority of the present Raja, 
whose father died a few years ago of the small-pox, is Bhim 
Sen, or rather Singha, mentioned in your account of the king- 
dom. He is called the General, and certainly deserves great 
credit for his fine and well disciplined soldiers. He is at present 
about forty-four years old, and is a fine interesting man, who is 
much liked by us all. He lives in a fine house, four storeys Ji^gh, 
which he has built in Kathmandu, with fire-places, pictures, 
chandeliers, &c. He dashes away in the uniform of an English 
general, wearing sometimes the Star of the Order of the Garter ! 
Two of his relatives, Maktibas Singha, a captain attached to his 
staffi, and Vazir Sin^a, a colonel, commanding at Palpa, have 
also adopted splendid and rich English uniforms ; as have also 
several other officers, whom I have seen at the Raja’s court. 
Your old friend Brahma Sahi who attended you up to 
Nepaul, and was afterwards governor of Duti *[-, died a few 
months ago; having previously lost his brother, Rudravir, at 
Saliyana 
The old venerable and noble temple of Swayambhu §, having 
been struck by lightning, got in 1817 another magnificent top, 
replaced under the auspices of the Deva Dharma Raja ||, who 
sent a detachment for that purpose. Of course the new top is 
round, as you properly remark that the old one was. 
I have procured many geological specimens, which, with such 
remarks as my ignorance in that science will permit, I shall send 
to my chief patron Mr Colebropke. I have numberless musci 
for Dr Hooker ; of Mr Brown’s lyellia I have specimens with- 
• See Hamilton’s Nepaul, pp. 254, 255, 261, 298, 301. 
t Ihid, 279, 282, 287, 292, 293. f Ibid. 261. 
,§ Ibid. 208, 211, ‘ jl Ihid. 56, 119, 120, 121, 122. 
