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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1852

1853

Towards the evening visited the Putturklian valley two miles from the bungalow and near the village of Mosurgunje ; it is a small narrow valley or cul-de-sac in the hills about three quarters of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile broad across which and over the hills to the plains on the East runs a footpath ; the pass is called the Umjoorghat. [...] As we advanced into the hills the jungles became more and more dense ; about a mile from the top of the Ghat we passed several heaps of iron slag the refuse of the furnaces of the hill people who collect the iron ore which is common all over these hills smelt it in the rudest of furnaces and exchange the metal with the lowlanders for salt tobacco or rice ; at the second mile we stopped at a b [...] This spur of the hills forming the eastern horn of the recess named biaruk and upon which the Fort of Monghyr is built extends to byond the Ganges where it appears as several naked quartz rocks one of which standing in the middle of the Ganges causes the destruction of numerous boats during the rains when the river rushes over it with a great noise heard at the distance of several miles. [...] A vein of argentiferous galena was discovered at the base of these hills in 1847 but as the discoverer keeps the site a secret no more can be said about the matter the ore was tested in Calcutta and found to contain much silver ; a dispute about the title-deeds of the village lands is the cause of the secrecy in the matter. [...] The Chuk Sikundur then (or hamlet of Alexander for Tukht (or the throne) is a pure invention of the Topographist ) is the ruin of it small mud castle built by the Sikhs upon the site of a hamlet of that name about fifty yards long by thirty wide ; standing upon the elevated soil at the eastern edge of the basin of the Hydaspes and distant about two miles from the river.
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Pages
91
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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195-i The Secretaries view
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214-263 The Secretaries view
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270-274 The Secretaries view
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