
This coloured aquatint was made by Robert Havell and Son from plate 14 of JB Fraser's 'Views in the Himala Mountains'. The village and fort of Bumpta were situated on a steep hillside. The once-extensive fort lay in ruins, having been damaged by accidental fire. The Rana of Jubbal was building a residence on its foundations. On the way to Bumpta the terrain became more rugged and Fraser commented in his journal: "I have travelled in the Highlands of Scotland, and have made long marches there without more fatigue than is usually felt, but I must aver that a twelve or thirteen miles stage, such as of this day, has fatigued me more than upwards of three times its distance at home."