Pundit, paffed through the hills above C'ojgong, and tp the
fouthrWeft of this pafs, into Bengal. . On the top. of the hill
is a ruined tomb of a Muflulman fled, or faintv The whole
fcene appeared to me highly pi&urefque; a plate, therefore,
is given of, this view, as it marks the general character of
this part of the country. At. this- place I was met by. a party
of feapoys, lent hy my muchdamented and revered [friend,
the late Auguftus Cleveland,’ Efq. then colie,fior of the districts
of Rajemahel and Bauglepoor, to efcort me to. the falls
of Mootejema in the hills, about four, c o ls ,’or eight'Epglilh
miles inland from the river. From the height of the hills,
thefe cafcades are cleariy feen, in the time of the rains, the
river being then near, thirty feet higher than in die dry Igalpjt,
and the falls confiderably increafcd. The road, or rather path,
is through the jungles, or woods ; and when rain has lately
fallen in the bills, the noife of the cataraCt is diftinddy heard
at the diftanoe of two Englilh miles. It cpnfifts of two falls,
which taken together, the perpendicular height meafures pne
hundred and five feet. The water, falling,over vail maflef
of rocks, is received in a hafon below, and continues running
through fragments of the rock, rerlt from above, until it is
loft inthe Ganges, At the bottom of the lower fall is a great
hollow caVe, which is eafily entered from either fitje, and the
water is feen from within, forming part of the arc of a great
circle before. In the interior part of this cave, which may
be thirty feet from the front of the rock, the. bale appears t<?
be a mixture pf rock and charcoal ; that is, the interftices of