BATTLE FILD OF ANGLO MARATHA WAR

General Smith knowing the difficulties of the road he had taken, pursued him with only the horse artillery, 2d cavalry, the 65th regiment, the 1st of 2d N. I. and pioneers, leaving the remainder of his force with Colonel Boles to follow leisurely, for he naturally felt some apprehension for Seroor and Poonah. About ten miles from Warsowa there is another ghaut of very difficult ascent, called Manhulla, up which the guns were dragged by the men. The town of Barramwarra is situated on the table land of this romantic mountain, and near it the Peishwa's army had encamped, and paid the last honours to the son of Gockla, a fine young man of twenty years of age. The natives assured Thoughtless that his wife, about fifteen years of age, and of great beauty, performed suttee with his body. From this town, which was in a very ruined state, Charles had a fine view of those vast ranges of ghauts, on the highest table land of which he now stood. No country in the world can be stronger for defensive warfare than this part of the Deckan. It appears as if it had been once an entire table land, though now broken into hills and ridges of rocks, as if all the soil parts had been washed away by the flood. The hills are of most fantastic shapes, many of them are isolated, and the little valleys are in full cultivation. From this height the force descended into the plain of Wuttoor, by a pass which is long and difficult. At the bottom of it there is a very neat dhurmmsallah, with a fine well for travellers, and the town of Wuttoor, situated near it, appeared in a very flourishing state. The force encamped there late in the evening of the last day in the year 1817, and Charles Thoughtless" laid his weary head on his pillow, after breakfasting on beefsteaks at supper time, and uttering a soldier's short prayer : " O God, I thank thee with all my heart and soul for thy protection during the past year."
By Robert Grenville Wallace