to other members of the same services.[15]
On the 16th of January we went on to Horal, ten miles over a plain,
with villages numerous and large, and in every one some fine large
building of olden times--sarai, palace, temple, or tomb, but all
going to decay.[16] The population much more dense than in any of the
native states I have seen; villages larger and more numerous; trade
in the transit of cotton, salt, sugar, and grain, much brisker. A
great number of hares were here brought to us for sale at threepence
apiece, a rate at which they sell at this season in almost all parts
of Upper India, where they are very numerous, and very easily caught
in nets.
Notes:
1. Kosi is twenty-five miles north-west of Mathura.
2. The story of the murder of Mr. Fraser is fully detailed _post_ in
Chapter 64. After the execution of Shams-ud-din, the estate of the
criminal was taken possession of by Government, and the town of
Firozpur is now the head-quarters of a sub-collectorship of the
Gurgaon district in the Panjab. The Delhi territories were placed
under the government of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab in
1858.
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