30th.—­Halted owing to having been robbed of two horses.

31st.—­Wuzerabad, twenty-four miles.  Ten miles from Wuzerabad the road extended through a highly cultivated country, and crossed the Chenab, on the left bank of which river Wuzerabad is situated.  The Chenab is a fine river, the stream 150 yards wide, but on either side extensive beds of sand show that the river during some seasons is of great width.

Wuzerabad is a nice well built town, having a fine straight bazaar, with paved street.  The chief gateways and residences built by General Avitabile.

Chilodia occurs in abundance, Eleusine sp., E. coracana; Bajra and Joari Nihi being the prevailing cultivation.

It is curious that in Phulahi major of Sera and the Kikkur, the young branches only are armed with thorns, so that the spines must be deciduous in certain species of Mimosa.

Cactus is an instance of a calyx composed of a congeries of adherent leaves, which leaves produce from their axilla, tufts of white hair and thorns; or is it not an instance of an axis hollowed out towards the apex, to the sides of which the ovary finally adheres, in this case the outermost series of the perianth will be calyx; one reason for adopting this supposition, besides the axillary bodies, is that there is no gradation between the small concave leaves of the calyx, and the outer series of the perianth.

November 1st.—­Halted for fishing:  Cyorinus Mrigala, is the Mhoori of these parts; it grows to a large size, is a handsome fish, and is indeed considered the king of fishes by the Punjabees.  The intestines are in longitudinal folds of extremely small comparative diameter, and enormous length; in a large specimen it is twenty-three times the length of the body.  The intestines of the Mahaseer are on the other hand only two and a quarter times the length of the body!

Of the fish obtained, two are Perilamps, here called Rohi,

          5 or 6 Cyprinides,
          4 or 5 Siluri,
               2 Ophiocephali,
               1 Esox. 
Indeed I obtained a list of twenty-four species.

2nd.—­To Goograuwala, twenty-four and a half miles, over a fine populous generally cultivated country.  Goograuwala is a large town, having the streets paved with brick like those of Wuzerabad.  Cactus very common; Kikkur (Mimosa) is the chief tree here about the Fukeer’s abodes.  The Banyan also occurs.

Peganum and Kochia of Jallalabad continue.  There is a fort of some size close to this town, built of mud; the ditch is unfinished, and not deep, it has a fau-se-braie, with bastions like those at Peshawur and Jumrood.  The surface of the ground is much broken close up to it, the earth being taken away for bricks.

3rd.—­Proceeded to Koori, an inconspicuous village, belonging to M. Court; it is surrounded by extensive plains, on which a tall grass occurs to a great extent.  Distance twenty-eight and a half miles, the time taken for to-day’s journey was six and a quarter hours.