Lake, on the 24th December, 1805, at the command
of Governor General Sir George Barlow, signed the
treaty by which Holkar was reinstated in all the
territory which had been acquired by Lord Wellesley
during the latter s memorable administration 1797-
1805, dunng which period he secured to the East
India Company the government of one half and the
control over the other half of India, from Cape
Comorin to the Sutlej ; advantages subsequently lost
by Lord Cornwallis’s weak policy, followed by Sir
George Barlow and Lord Minto. Lord Wellesley’s
conquests and alliances, however, were eventually
more than re-established by Lord Canning, Earl of
Moira, Governor General 1813-1822.
Greek mythology has likewise been busy in these
regions ; it was on the banks of the Hydaspes where
Nonnus, in his “ Dionysiasa,” laid the fight between
Bacchus and Deriade, which lasted seven years.
CHAPTER IV.
M t js s o o r ie a n d t h e H im a l a y a— B e n a r e s— H in d u P o l y t h e ism a n d
I n s t it u t io n o e C a s t e— C a l c u t t a— M a d r a s— C o n je y e r a m , t e m p l e s
OE THE C h ALUETAS DYNASTY PONDICHERRY.
T h e cold season of the year unfortunately prevented
my pursuing the much coveted journey to the Cash-
mere valley; but being bent upon obtaining as near
a view as possible of the Himalaya (Simla, for the same
reason, being out of reach), I retraced my steps as far
as Umballa, and there made arrangements for a trip to
Mussoorie, one of the Government sanataria of the Hill
States, with Landour, the military division, yet a
thousand feet above. I t is situated at the confines of