of
_Bagree_ cultivation.

_28th_.--To _Oostadkote_, nine and a half miles. The road is not a made
one for the latter one-third. Crossed the Naree about two miles from our
encampment: the country appeared the same. On arriving near our halting
place, green wheat fields, intermixed with much fresh Chenopodium, Gramen
Panicum, Reseda were most abundant, Chloroideum, Sinapis, Raphanus
cultivated with _Taira meera_, two Cruciferous plants common, Salsola
lanata also occurs. Water abundant in a channel of fifteen yards wide
and three feet deep, clear and tasteless. _Furas_ the most common shrub.
No grass occurs but the remains of Panicum. Wheat is here sown in
drills, in some places the crop is promising. The country is evidently
occasionally overflowed, witness the indurated surface and the fissures,
which away from the road, renders it bad for camels, being full of holes.

There are several villages visible round our camp, all of the usual
miserable description, and there is a good deal of _Bagree_ cultivation.
The water does not extend more than a mile; it is eight feet deep, and
about twenty yards wide towards the head, where the bund is thrown
across.

_March 1st_.--To Bagh nine and a half miles. The country is quite
similar: the chief plants continue to be Chenopodium cymbifolium,
_Kureel_, a _Rairoo_, _Ukko_, _Joussa_, and Salsola robusta, but occur in
no great plenty, they and all the face of the country exhibit marks of
inundation. Bagh is visible a long way off from its being ornamented
with a gamboge, or ochre-wash, otherwise its aspect is poor and muddy. We
came on the Naree about three miles from the town, and as it has been
bunded, it is full of clearish blue water, to a good depth. We encamped
about one and a half mile on the south side of the town. About the head
of the bund there is a good deal of wheat cultivation, and some mustard.
In these _khets_ Reseda is very abundant, Heliotrope is also common; I
picked up a Matthiola and a Pommereulla. The banks of the Naree are
clothed with small _Furas_, which in these parts are always encrusted
with saline matter, or, as it would seem, pure salt. Rock pigeons both
sorts, Loodianah rats, etc.

Bagh is celebrated for gunpowder; it is a largish, straggling, but poor
place, though thickly tenanted. Its latitude is 29 degrees 1' 20", and
is placed thirty miles too far south in Tassin's last map. Sugar-candy
from Bussorah and cloth, are the principal