=Nagar Gurha.=—Between Barmer and Nagar-Gurha on the Luni is one immense continuous _thal_, or rather _rui_, containing deep jungles of khair, or kher, khejra, karil, khep, phog,[8.1.31] whose gums and berries are turned to account by the Bhils and Kolis of the southern districts. Nagar and Gurha are two large towns on the Luni (described in the itinerary), on the borders of the Chauhan _raj_ of Suigam, and formerly part of it. Here terminate our remarks on the _thals_ of western Marwar, which, sterile as it is by the hand of Nature, had its miseries completed by the famine that raged generally throughout these regions in S. 1868 (A.D. 1812), and of which this[8.1.32] is the third year. The disorders which we have depicted as prevailing at the seat of government for the last thirty years, have left these remote regions entirely to the mercy of the desert tribes [304], or their own scarce less lawless lords: in fact, it only excites our astonishment how man can vegetate in such a land, which has nothing but a few _sars_, or salt-lakes, to yield any profit to the proprietors, and the excellent camel pastures, more especially in the southern tracts, which produce the best breed in the desert. ----- Footnote 8.1.1: The journals of all these routes, with others of Central and Western India, form eleven moderate-sized folio volumes, from which an itinerary of these regions might be constructed. It was my intention to have drawn up a more perfect and detailed map from these, but my health forbids the attempt. They are now deposited in the archives of the Company, and may serve, if judiciously used, to fill up the only void in the great map of India, executed by their commands. Footnote 8.1.2: [Kānod Mohindargarh in Patiāla State (_IGI_, xvii. 385).] Footnote 8.1.3: It left Delhi October 13, 1808. Footnote 8.1.4: “Our marches,” says Mr. Elphinstone, “were seldom very long. The longest was twenty-six miles, and the shortest fifteen; but the fatigue which our people suffered bore no proportion to the distance. Our line, when in the closest order, was two miles long. The path by which we travelled wound much, to avoid the sand-hills. It was too narrow to allow of two camels going abreast; and if an animal stepped to one side, it sunk in the sand as in snow,” etc. etc.—_Account of the Kingdom of Caubul_, ed. 1842, vol. i. p. 11. Footnote 8.1.5: [In Sind, on the N. shore of the Great Rann, about 10 miles from Nagar-Pārkar.] Footnote 8.1.6: _Trikuta_, the epithet bestowed on the rock on which the castle of Jaisalmer is erected. Footnote 8.1.7: A name often given by Ferishta to the Indus. Footnote 8.1.8: [As has been already stated, Sahariya has no connexion with Arabic _Sahra_, ‘desert.’] Footnote 8.1.9: [Jhāl, of which there are two varieties, large and small, _Salvadora persica_ and _S. oleoides_.] Footnote 8.1.10: