Bombay to Allahabad. n

the wildest animals and the most primitive of men. In
the early dawn, as the railway train rushes along through
the cool but mild air, are seen to the right an irregular
line of picturesque mountains covered with thick jungle
to their summits; and the Englishman unaccustomed
to India, who leaves the railway and goes into them, will
find himself as much out of his reckoning as if he threw
himself overboard a Red Sea steamer and made for the
Arabian coast.

The Narbada, which is the boundary between the
Deccan and Hindusthan proper, rises at Amartank, at
the height of 5000 feet, in the dominions of the painted
Rajah of Rewa, who was certainly the most picturesque
figure in the great Bombay durbar two and a half years
ago; and who, more recently, being in bad health and
unfit for the cares of rule, has shown his great gpod
sense by asking the British Government to undertake
the tutelage of his state and of his son until that son
•attains his majority. It enters the Gulf of Bombay at
the cotton town of Bharu'ch or Broach, and to the English
merchant is almost the most important of the Indian
rivers, It is supposed that, in prehistoric times, its
valley must have been a series of great lakes, which are
now filled by alluvial deposits of a recent epoch; and
the discovery of flint implements in its alluvium, by the
late Lieutenant Downing Sweeney, has indicated it,as
an important field for the researches of the archaeologist.
Though its upper course is tumultuous enough, in deep
clefts through marble rock, and falling in cascades over
high ledges, it soon reaches a rich broad valley, contain-
ing iron and coal, which is one of the largest granaries
and is the greatest cotton-field of India. Through that
valley it runs, a broad yellow strip of sand and shingle ]
and it has altogether a course of about 800 miles, chiefly
on a basalt bed, through a series of rocky cl-efts and
valley-basins.