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to four degrees of latitude, seems to derive a large proportion of 

 its vegetation from the neighbouring hills ; but grasses, especially 

 Bambusa, Saccharum, Andropogon, Apluda, and Panicum, toge- 

 ther with the allied tribes of Cyperoideae, form a larger and more 

 marked feature than trees or shrubs. On the whole, the rigid 

 and thorny vegetation of the Vindhyan mountains seems more 

 suited for the plain than the more ornamental vegetation of 

 either the Eastern or Himaliya mountains. Near both these, 

 however, their plants have made considerable encroachments, and 

 communicate a change of appearance to the adjacent plains, espe- 

 cially towards the east, where the air is vastly cooler and moister 

 than farther west. 



I have already mentioned the appearance of the Gangetic 

 Delta, which, on the whole, has a strange and exotic appearance 

 to the European traveller. As we advance, however, to the 

 north, and still more as we proceed west, notwithstanding the 

 intense heats of the summer, the vegetation appears more of an 

 accustomed form. Wheat, Barley, Pease, and Rape-seed form 

 by far the largest proportion of the crops, and we observe fields 

 of Potatoes and Carrots, while the Palmae and Bambusae disap- 

 pear from the plantations, and the gardens produce the Vine,_ the 

 Fig, the Apple, and the Plum, with many flowers common in 

 Europe, and the thickets contain much of the wild Rose. Still, 

 however, even in Kuru, the Mangifera, the Eugenia, the Calyp- 

 tranthes, the Fici (religiosa and bengalensis) the Rhamni, and 

 the exotic crops produced in the rainy season (Oryza, Holcus, 

 Panicum, Paspalum, Dolichos) with the want of the Coniferse 

 and Amentaceae in the plantations, remind us sufficiently that we 

 are not in Europe. 



I now was exhausted by a. long continued exertion ; the ob- 

 servation of plants making but a small part of my duty, and I re- 

 quired to pass the remainder of my days at peace in my native 



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