text:  The "Notes" (published in 1840 in the _Asiatic Journal_) of the late lamented Emma Roberts than whom no one would have been better qualified to fill up the void though replete with interest and information are merely those of a traveller hastening through the country on her way to India; and except the fugitive sketches of Mrs Dawson Damer we cannot call to mind a single one among all the lady-tourists with whose tours and voyages the press has lately teemed who has touched on this hitherto unbroken ground