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, March 1871.

Wa now retrace our steps from Ssharua- pore to Allahabad, 500 miles, and here turn to the southward iu the direction of Bom- bay, 850 miles distent. We gradually tlimb the Ghants, along rerge of mountains stretching acrose India fram Weatto Nast; and inten hours had assended LOCO fest and reached Jubbalpore, one of the moet important cities Gf cantral Tnrlia, Is ig situ. ate@ on the Nerbudda, a large snd rapid stream, which has its source in a fist-topped mountain, forming the essicra terminus of this ranze of hills. Tho legend is that Her Majosty, the Nevbudda, and another viver, risiug in the same movalsin, had intended to be united ia marrixge, snd to rotl their waters together teward fhe esstern seas; but the ecsurse of true lova isiled to run soomth; the little river Jobille, which has its source hard by, castin the apple of dig eard, avd Her Msjesty declared she would not gos single pacoin the same direction with such wretches, and would flow wesi, though all the other rivers in Ludia might flow east. S95 west she turned, and after a thousand miles of wancering, yours ker waters Into the Arabian Sea.

‘fen miles trom Jubvalpore are the cele. hrated “Marble Rocks,” where the petulant Nerbudds, beeoming pent up between lime- stone reeks, flings herself {umuliuously over sjedge with a fall of thirty feet, called the “(Misty Shoot,” then enters a deeply-eut channel, carved through s mzss of marble and basalt for abeut two miles. The river is here compressed inte some twenty yards, though more than fiva fimes that width above the falle, and glides slong in its nar- row bed very smoothly and with great depth, between a double wail of marbie from filty to eighty feet in height. In some places large tastes of basalt, black as jet, contrast strongly with the dazzling white