'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.' [‎5] (18/314)

FORSTER’S TRAVELS,
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afcribed to the northern fituation of Kafhmire, which is little
more than two hundred miles from Lahore, where, many of the
fruits of fouthern India come to maturity, but to the furrounding
fnowy mountains, and an highly elevated land ; which the Hindoos
fay, though very widely, is three perpendicular miles higher than
the Punjab,
On the 26th of April, at Durroo or Lurroo, a fmall but
very populous town, feven coffes from Bannaul, where our khan
and his fuite were hofpitably received by the chief, and lodged that
night at his houfe. Our entertainment, and the cordial behaviour
of the hoft, made us a general recompence for the fatigues of the
journey; and I in an inftant, forgot the pains of my bruifed feet,
in the plealant comparifon between a commodious llielter and the
boifterous weather of the mountains.
On the 27th, at Iflaamabad, five coffes — a large town, fituate
on the north fide of the river Jalum, which is here fpringing from
the mountains, or penetrating them in narrow openings. At this
place the Jalum, over which a wooden bridge is built, is about eighty
yards acrofs, and from the level furface of the country has a gentle
current. Our party, this evening, hired a boat to proceed to the
city, and had gone more than five miles, when a written order ar
rived, in an evil hour, requiring us to return and remain at Ifla-
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amabad, until a paflport ftiould be obtained from the court. This
check infufed a general gloom, and rendered our fituation, already
confined and irkfome, almoft comfortlefs. The boat, a very fmall
one.