Not far from our last camp at Gokurnath, we entered a belt of jungle three miles wide, consisting chiefly of stunted, knotty, and crooked sakhoo trees, with underwood and rank chopper grass.

This belt of jungle is the same we passed through, as above described, between Poknapoor and Gokurnath.

It runs from the great forest to the north, a long way down south-east, into the Khyrabad district.

From this belt to our present ground, six miles, the road passes over a fine plain, nine-tenths of which is covered with this grass, but studded with mango-groves and fine single trees.
The forest runs along to the north of our road--which lay east--from one to three miles distant, and looked very like a continued mango- grove.

The level plain of rich soil extends up through the forest to the foot of the hills, and is all the way capable of the finest cultivation.