onsisting of dry sand. We crossed one small nullah, when an old
fort became visible on a hill, in the centre of the valley.

_2nd_.--Proceeded to Toot, a distance of eleven miles, through a similar
country; the road dividing at the low hills approaching the river and
forming its banks, which are in places precipitous; the greater part of
the difficulties were avoided by taking the lower route, that along the
hills being impassable for guns owing to the large rocks scattered in
every direction, and detached from conglomerate hills. Two or three
nullahs were passed, one with a little water. The ground was besides a
good deal cut up towards the centre of the valley, and a water-cut was
crossed several times. Owing to the delay in making the road, the troops
did not reach the encamping ground before 8 or 8.5 P.M., the camels in
some instances not before 12 P.M. An attack is reported to have been
made on the baggage at the river where the road ascends the cliff: it was
prevented by a party of the 13th, who shot two of the marauders. _Joussa_
is plentiful, and Mentha in flower.

The Turnuk river is 20 feet broad, the current rapid, and the water
discoloured; the banks are sandy, 15 feet high: coarse grass, Clematis
scandens fol. ternatisectis pinnatis. _Jhow_ is abundant.

_3rd_.--From Toot to ----, nine miles and four furlongs. Road decent,
over the usual sort of ground, except in one place, where the bank
approaches the river; this defile is much shorter and much easier than
that at Tirandaz or rather Jillongeer: a small river with a little water
is crossed: here the road for a very short distance bends suddenly to a
little west of north, but having crossed a narrow and deep ravine-like
cut, resumes its original direction. The country continues precisely the
same, the valley however becomes narrow and more undulating, while the
peculiar limestone ranges appear to be fewer. Reached the encamping
ground in very good time, the vegetation almost precisely the same as
before, but with some willow trees. Many of the ravines are however,
actually covered with thickets, apparently of the prickly yellow flowered
Dioica shrub of _Chummun_; trees and these shrubs occupied by thousands
of a hymenopterous insect or fly. _Joussa_ very abundant: a village, the
lights of one were visible _en route_. The water of the Turnuk is
still very much discoloured, its bed shingly, and the ground near it much
cut up: a mill was passed o