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LETTER XXXIII.


DEAR SIR,

CAPTAIN Baker with the detachment under his command, marched to Ralnnagur, where he remained till further orders; and Major Popham advanced with his troops, in purſuit_ of the enemy, to Bidgegur, which lies about fifty miles to the ſouth eaſt of Chunaqt: the fort is erected on the ſummit of a lofty rock, and riſes to the great height of ſeven hundred feet above the ſurface of the country. It was con—

ſidered next to Ganlin, among the ſtrongeſt in India, being deemed,

like