. Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . of the Patar, from which we have descended. To theeast, its abrupt cliff overhangs the placid expanse of the Chambal,its height above which is about two hundred feet : the level of theriver in the monsoon is marked at full thirty feet above its present BHAINSRORGARH 1689 elevation. The Bamani bounds Bhainsror on the west, and bythe rapidity of its fall has completely scarped the rock, even to[650] the angle of confluence within which is placed the castle,to whose security a smaller intermediate stream no
. Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . of the Patar, from which we have descended. To theeast, its abrupt cliff overhangs the placid expanse of the Chambal,its height above which is about two hundred feet : the level of theriver in the monsoon is marked at full thirty feet above its present BHAINSRORGARH 1689 elevation. The Bamani bounds Bhainsror on the west, and bythe rapidity of its fall has completely scarped the rock, even to[650] the angle of confluence within which is placed the castle,to whose security a smaller intermediate stream not a littlecontributes. As by mistake it is placed in the map on the wrongside of the Bamani, we shall correct this error by giving a slightplan of the ground. On the north alone is it accessible, and there the hill is scarped ;but this scarp, which is about three hundred yards distant, formsa good cover, and a few shells thence played upon the castle wouldsoon compel it to surrender. The rock is a soft, loose, blueschistose slate, which Avould not retard the miner. The approach on a I nsrorgrar/iy Chulis, or whirlpools. The Rapids of the Chambal. from the river, here about five hundred yards wide, would bedestruction. It is never fordable, and its translucent sea-greenwaters are now full forty feet in depth. \Vhen in the periodicalrains it accumulates at its source, and is fed during its passageby many minor streanis from the Vindhya and this oberland, itsvelocity is overwhelming ; it rises above the opposing bank, andlaying the whole tract to the base of the tableland of Haraot*under water, sweeps away in its irresistible course even the might here be exhausted in vain attempts to explainhow nature could overcome this formidable obstacle to heroperations, and how the stream could effect its passage throughthis adamantine barrier. The channel cut in the rock is as cleanas if performed by the chisel, and standing on the svunmit of thecliff, which is fr
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