79/83 Water must lie during the rains on all the other sides, and the soil has more clay in it.] _January_ 7, 1850 .-- To Mirree, twelve miles, over a plain of light doomuteea soil, sufficiently cultivated, and well studded with trees. The fog was, however, too thick to admit of my seeing it. From this place to Lucknow, thirty miles, Seetlah Buksh, a deputy of Almas Allee Khan's, planted an avenue of the finest kind of trees. We had to pass through a mile of it, and the trees are in the highest perfection, and complete on both sides. I am told that there are, however, many considerable intervals in which they have been destroyed. |