42 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY, &c. 
while the Shawl Wool Goat thrives only in these regions. The Sheep, unrivalled for 
size and beauty, as well as for fineness of wool, are, like the Goat, used for carriage, 
and both, as also the Dog, are furnished with a fine wool under the rough upper 
covering of shaggy hair. The Bhural, Asiatic Argali, or Ovis Ammon, is also found 
here, with the shaggy-tailed Yak or Bos grunniens. The Wild Horse, the Guckur or 
Wild Ass, and the Dziggtai or Equus Hemionus of Pallas, (the Mule of travellers) 
complete the list of Mammalia on the N. face of the Himalaya. The Birds enume- 
rated as having been seen, are Eagles, Ravens, Grouse, Linnets, and Goldfinches, and 
the lakes are described as being covered in summer with Geese, Ducks, and numerous 
Gralle ; Vultur barbatus, Perdix Chukor, Satyrus melanocephalus, Lophophorus Impey- 
anus, Phasianus Wallichii, and a bird, with red beak and legs, like Fragilis gracula, 
~ have also been seen in Kunawur, which in the distribution of the animal, as in that 
of the vegetable kingdom, approximates to the Altai mountains. 
In the foregoing general view of the climate and productions of the tract of country 
whence the collections have been formed, it was impossible to be more minute 
regarding species; but the details respecting such as it will be requisite to notice, 
will be introduced after the general observations on the natural orders to which they 
respectively belong. At the same time also will be noticed the particular plants 
of other countries, which it would be advisable to introduce into India; and there is 
no doubt that, with the warm climate of the Plains, moist in the lower and dry in 
the upper provinces, and the temperate one of the Hill provinces, the facilities are 
great, and the field most extended for increasing the resources and improving the 
comforts of an immense population. The results which have already attended the 
introduction into India of such foreign products as Tobacco, Capsicum, the Guava, 
Pine, and Custard-apples, which are so completely acclimated as. to appear indi- 
genous, are our best guarantees for further success; particularly as the most valuable 
products of the plains of India, as Rice, Sugar-cane, Ginger, now form a part of 
the principal resources of the warmer parts of the New World, which possess many 
valuable products peculiar to themselyes. Many also of the useful and ornamental 
productions of the Hill provinces, may no doubt be introduced into England and 
the rest of Europe; the principal of these will be pointed out; and here, again, 
there is every reason to hope for considerable success, as many of the trees and 
shrubs of Northern India are now flourishing in the open air of England, especially 
in the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London, and of the Messrs. Loddige, 
where may be seen: Pinus Deodara, Webbiana, exeelsa, Gerardiana and Morinda ; 
Rhododendron arboreum, aristatum, campanulatum and lepidotum; Pyrus vestita and 
variolosa ; Crategus glauca; Cotoneaster microphylla, rotundifolia, and several other 
species; Benthamia fragifera; Rosa sericea, macrophylla, and Brunonis ; Berberis 
Asiatica, aristata and Wallichiana; Potentilla atrosanguinea and Nepalensis, Salvia nubi- 
cola, with many others. 
