length, by repeated and well-directed difcharges, compelled them to retreat.

A few days after this occurrence, the weather becoming more favourable, and Mr. Thomas having rallied the fugitives, erected a battery, from which he fired with fuch good effect, as to bring down a confiderable part of the wall; but night intervening before he could prepare for ftorming, the affault was de-i layed until the enfuing day. It was however rendered unneceffary by the enemy's having evacuated the town during the night.

The best and braveft men of Hurrianah being in this town, Mr. Thomas reduced the other places with but little resistance. In a fhort time he gained complete poffeffion of the whole fouth part of the province; but the north-western part being occupied by the Batties, the rajah of Pattyalah, and other feik chieftains, it coft him confiderable time and much trouble to establish his authority as far as the river Cauggur.

The fuccefsful termination of this campaign,

ffords us an opportunity of presenting a detailed account of the country poffeffed by Mr. Thomas; with fome relative obfervations on the nature and quality of the foil, and on the general character of its inhabitants..

In the diftrict called Hurrianah, ninety miles to the north-weft of Delhi, is the country of Mr. George Thomas. It extends eighty cofs from north to fouth, and the fame distance from eaft to weft. To the northward it is bounded by the poffeffions of Sahig Sing, chief of Puttialah, on the north-weft by the Batties, weft by the dominions of Beykaneer, and fouth by Jypore, fouth-east by the pergunnah of Dadaree, caft by the diftricts adjoining to Delhi, and north-east by the cities of Rhotuck and Panniput. That part of the country more immediately occupied by Mr. Thomas, is in fhape nearly oval, and extends from fixteen to twenty-four cofs in different directions. The northern boundary is formed by the river Cauggur, beyond which are the feik territories. To the fouth it is bounded by the town of Behal,

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east by Mahim, and weft by Behadra, containing in all eight hundred villages.

Within this tract of country, as in most parts of Hurrianah, water is scarce, more especially during the hot feafon. To remedy this inconvenience, the inhabitants have constructed wells of confiderable depth, not unfrequently from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty feet.

In addition to this each diftrict has two or three tanks faced with ftone. These afford a plentiful supply of water until the approach of the hot winds of the enfuing feafon, when they are dried up. The number of wells differ according to the industry of the respective inhabitants. At Hiffar, for inftance, are three hundred; at Hanfi, thirty; at Mahim, one hundred; Tuhana has only fix; and fome.of the smaller towns from two to five. In this country the Cauggur river is of the greatest fervice to the inhabitants. It is overflowed during the rainy season by the acceffion of the ftreams which iffue from the mountains; and on the retiring of the waters, leaves, like the