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GANGE TIC HINDOOSTAN. 189
Iith of May; on the igth, part of the army made the event-
ful paflage over the Jumna in boats, covered by twelve two
pounders, and two placed on the weftern heights of the river,
oppofite to the city and fort of Calpee or Culpee. In this city
are numbers of tombs, fays the Ayeen, ii. p. 47, of great per-
fonages; it had its-own, princes tributary to Debli. Two thou-
fand Mahratta horfe made a fhew of oppofttion, but were foon
difperfed by the artillery, After fome farther flight refiftance,
the fort and town, abandoned by the garrifon and inhabitants,
feil into our hands. On May the a7th, June 2d and 3d, the
whole paffage was effedted. The Commander of the Mahratta
force in this part was Gungadur Punty who had Orders from
Poonab to ufe all his efforts to obitru6l the progreis of the
Engliß, in which his brother Ballagee, who had a diftri6t far-
ther to the well, was to affift.
•The march from Culpee was attended with the utmoft difß-
eulty, through narrow roads, and amidft hillocks of Conkar. Conkar..
This fubftanee feems to me a genuine lava.. The hillocks rife
to a conliderable height, are moft rüde and irregulär,, and of
moft grotefque appearances, compofed of fcoria, exadtly refem-
bling the flags flung out of iron furnaces ; they muft have been
Yulcanic, and thefe the extinct vulcanos. I have been told that
earthquakes have been feit but rarely in Hindooßan,. which
fliews that vulcanic fury has been long exhaufted»
The heats at this time were dreadful. Numbers of Sepoys Dre-adf^l
r J Heats.
were ftruck dead by them. Captain Craufurd, an officer of dif-
tinguilhed merit, feil a victim to the heat. Dogs and other ani-
mals funk under it. To add to the calamity every well had
been<
Iith of May; on the igth, part of the army made the event-
ful paflage over the Jumna in boats, covered by twelve two
pounders, and two placed on the weftern heights of the river,
oppofite to the city and fort of Calpee or Culpee. In this city
are numbers of tombs, fays the Ayeen, ii. p. 47, of great per-
fonages; it had its-own, princes tributary to Debli. Two thou-
fand Mahratta horfe made a fhew of oppofttion, but were foon
difperfed by the artillery, After fome farther flight refiftance,
the fort and town, abandoned by the garrifon and inhabitants,
feil into our hands. On May the a7th, June 2d and 3d, the
whole paffage was effedted. The Commander of the Mahratta
force in this part was Gungadur Punty who had Orders from
Poonab to ufe all his efforts to obitru6l the progreis of the
Engliß, in which his brother Ballagee, who had a diftri6t far-
ther to the well, was to affift.
•The march from Culpee was attended with the utmoft difß-
eulty, through narrow roads, and amidft hillocks of Conkar. Conkar..
This fubftanee feems to me a genuine lava.. The hillocks rife
to a conliderable height, are moft rüde and irregulär,, and of
moft grotefque appearances, compofed of fcoria, exadtly refem-
bling the flags flung out of iron furnaces ; they muft have been
Yulcanic, and thefe the extinct vulcanos. I have been told that
earthquakes have been feit but rarely in Hindooßan,. which
fliews that vulcanic fury has been long exhaufted»
The heats at this time were dreadful. Numbers of Sepoys Dre-adf^l
r J Heats.
were ftruck dead by them. Captain Craufurd, an officer of dif-
tinguilhed merit, feil a victim to the heat. Dogs and other ani-
mals funk under it. To add to the calamity every well had
been<