The doomuteea soil is here esteemed better than the muteear, though it requires more labour in the tillage.

It is said that _mote_ and _mash_, two pulses, do not thrive in the muteear soil so well as in the doomuteea.
_February_ 3, 1850 .-- Poknapoor, eight miles.

We crossed the Goomtee about midway, over a bridge of boats that had been prepared for us.
The boats came up the river thus far for timber, and were detained for the occasion.

The stream is here narrow, and said to flow from a basin (the phoola talao) in the Tarae forest, some fifty miles to the north, at Madhoo Tanda.

There is some tillage on the verge of the stream on the other side; but from the river to our tents, four miles, there is none.