The suburbs of the city are well wooded, and all such portions are well provided with gardens.  The Khujoor is the most common tree, the Moringa, mango, Jamun, Bheir, Neem, Cassia fistula, Sissoo, Peepul, Furas, Phulahi, another Mimosa and Agati, occur; oranges in gardens, and a Pomaceous tree from Cashmere, which appears to thrive very well.  The cultivation consists chiefly of wheat, Mahta, mustard, radishes, Soonf, coriander, beet, Bagree.

In these fields Phascum, Plantago, Ispaghula, Singee, Chenopodiaceae 1-2, Salsola lanata, and Boehmeria, may be found; Composita salinaria, stocks and wall-flowers in the gardens.

The vegetation elsewhere is very scanty; consisting of Jhow, Bheir, Furas, Ukko, Joussa, Andropogon Seerkee, Rairoo, Kureel, a low bush called ——­, and a Lycium?  Boehmeria albida.

The town is miserably defended:  the streets are very irregular and very narrow:  the houses all of mud, of the usual Scindian form, and completely irregular.  The bazaars or arcades, are mere ordinary streets, covered in with timbers, over which tattered mats are placed:  in these are situated the Hindoo shops, and in some places darkness is completely visible.  These Hindoos have a peculiar elongated Jewish aspect, and are reported to be very wealthy.  Grain and cloth are the principal articles in which they deal, and they say the streets are covered in order that the purchaser may buy with his eyes half shut.  The city is a large rambling place, and each house deposits its own filth before it.  The inhabitants, especially the Hindoo portion, have a peculiar complexion, and by no means a healthy one.  No one seems to have deserted the town on account of our approach, neither has fear hitherto prevented them from bringing their merchandise into camp.

The weather has continued cool:  yesterday we had a good deal of rain; to-day it is very cloudy.  The range of the thermometers from 46 degrees and 48 degrees to 82 degrees outside.

Artificers are not uncommon, as carpenters and blacksmiths, but their tools are miserable:  and there is no such thing as a large saw to be seen.  Wages are high, and from the slowness with which they work, it is ruinous to employ them.

Left Shikarpore on the 21st and marched to Jargon, 13.5 miles, one of the usual fortified villages of kucha or unburnt brick.  Houses surrounded also with Jhow fences.  The jungle and country precisely the same as that round Shikarpore, road at first bad, but subsequently good enough:  water is to be had very good:  at no great depth.

22nd.—­To Janidaira, 11.5 miles:  road excellent throughout.  Country less covered with jungle:  features mostly the same:  a curious looking plant occurred plentifully, but to a limited extent near Jargon and subsequently, as the country became more sandy, we had abundance of Salicornia, of which camels are excessively fond, otherwise Jhow, Furas, very common, Rairoo, Kureel, Ukko throughout; near Jargon, Elrua very common, Chenopodium cymbifolium throughout.