CHAPTER V. 
The Valley oj Tassisudon.-—Palace of the Chief—its extensive Ac¬ 
commodation containing cdl the Officers of State, a very numerous 
Establishment of Gylongs, and a Temple of Worship.—Coldness 
oj the Season—Buildings ill calculated to obviate its Effects.—The 
Rajah's Stud.—Ancient Site of Tassisudon.—Palace oj Lam Ghas- 
satoo.—Mode of supplying the Valley with Water f rom the sut - 
rounding Mills. — The sacred Sentence enclosed in Temples, in¬ 
scribed on Tablets , on Flags , and on Rocks. — Brahmennee, or 
sacred Bull. — Artisans—Paper Manufactory.—Season oj the Rains 
moderate—general Salubrity of o up Situation. — Poshtee.—An Ex¬ 
cursion. — Wandeechy.—Settlements of the Religious.—A Recluse. 
- —Caution of the Daeb .— Mr. Saunders taken ill—Incantations for 
his Recovery. 
Having at length a little time to breathe from the occupations of 
ceremony, and the no less important concern of domestic arrangements, 
1 shall endeavour to give a general idea of the valley of Tassisudon. A 
narrow slip of three or four miles in length, and in its widest part not 
exceeding one mile in breadth, has been made choice, of for the situ¬ 
ation of the. capital. It may rather be termed, I think, a softened glen, 
which lying betwixt the vast mountains that give a passage to the river 
