'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.' [‎8] (21/314)

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FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
pation and views. I told the old ftory of a tuik travelling towards
his country, with the addition, that to avoid the Sicque territory,
I had taken the route of Kalhmire, where I hoped to experience the
benefit of his proteftion. My ftory was favourably heard, and I
received a very cordial affurance of every neceffary afliftance. Our
party being directed to attend the Dewan, and to form a part of
his domeftic fuite, we preceded by water, on the afternoon of
the 3d of May, to Bhyteepour, nine cofles, a village fituate on
the northern bank of the Jalum, the evening was ferene, and
the variegated view of populous villages, interfperfed through
a plain which was waving with a rich harveft, and enlivened
by the notes of a thoufand birds, filled the mind with harmony
and delight.
In the vicinity of Bhyteepour are feen the remains of an Hindoo
temple, which, though impaired by the ravages of time, and more
by the deftruftive hand of the Mahometans, ftill bore evident marks
of a fuperior tafte and fculpture. Kafhmire, having fallen a con-
queft to the followers of Mahomet, at an early period of their
empire in India, when they furioufly broke down every fence
that barred the progrefs of their religion, felt the full force of
a barbarous zeal; and its monuments of worfhip and tafte were
thrown to the ground in fhapelefs piles of ruin.
The Dewan taking Zulphucar Khan with him, went, on the
5th of the month into the interior part of the country, and directed
me to wait for him at the town of Pamper, ten miles further down
the