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Pakree (5500) : — 11 miles. The first five miles are down a 

 terrible descent, over a steep and bad foothpath, full of loose 

 stones and broken ground, but through a well-wooded country — 

 in some places a perfect forest. Here I saw several Entellus- 

 Monkeys. After this the road improves into a vei*y fair one and 

 rather level, passing through the new military cantonment of 

 Chakarata, the site of which is on the top of hills, rather want- 

 ing in trees, but the ground very level and covered with abun- 

 dance of grass : water seems to be scarce at present, though it 

 can be brought from a great distance. At Pakree there are two 

 bungalows : near one of them I found a good many splendid 

 mushrooms and truflSes on the grassy flats. The water is good 

 and at no great distance. 



Thaena (5000) : — 11 miles. For the first few miles the road 

 is fair, through a well-wooded country; then it becomes wretch- 

 edly bad, in some places almost impassable, with fatiguing 

 ascents and descents — down watercourses occasionally, as the 

 roads have been washed away. There were numbers of leeches, 

 causing the greatest annoyance and pain to our feet. 



Mudarsoo (4500) : — 8 miles. A dreadful road, the whole 

 way through a dense jungle ; the first half is a descent to the 

 river Jumna, which is crossed^by an old English iron suspension- 

 bridge. The river here is seventy feet broad, and the stream 

 rushes with great force. From this bridge there is a steep 

 ascent the whole way to Mudarsoo. It rained the whole time I 

 was there. 



Mussoorie (6000) :— 16 miles. The first two-thirds of the 

 road very bad, through a well-wooded country with steep 

 ascents and descents. About halfway, at a place called Doad- 

 ley, the Loquaree road is met, and thence the way improves 

 greatly, till within four miles of Mussoorie it becomes a fine, 

 broad, level road. Mussoorie is a large sanatorium, with a con- 

 valescent military hospital attached. The European houses are 

 very good, but not equal to those at Simla, which is in reality 

 now, for at least six months in the year, the seat of the Indian 

 Government. 



The whole country between Simla and Mussoorie is fairly 

 cultivated, with numerous villages off the road in every direc- 



