Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t5.30

v2.c27.s7.t5.30

Jharāu.—November 28.—Camp at Jharau, five coss (11 miles). On leaving Merta, we passed over the ground sacred to “ the four thousand,” whose heroic deeds, demonstrating at once the Rajput’s love of freedom and his claim to it, we have just related. We this day altered our course from the N.N.E., which would have carried us, had we pursued it, to the Imperial city, for a direction to the southward of east, in order to cross our own Aravalli and gain Ajmer. The road was excellent, the soil very fair ; but though there were symptoms of cultivation near the villages, the wastes were frightfully predominant ; yet they are not void of vegetation : there is no want of herbage or stunted shrubs. The Aravalli towered majestically in the distant horizon, fading from our view towards the south-east, and intercepted by rising grounds.