112 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



raspberries, ivy, honeysuckle, and other plants of 

 the temperate regions. The banks on the road- 

 side, also, now began to be clothed with wild straw- 

 berry, geranium, violets, and different kinds of 

 mosses and lichens never seen in the plains. It is 

 difficult to conceive more beautiful forest scenery 

 than the Mussoorie Pass exhibits. At every turn 

 a varied view presents itself, either of magnificent 

 vistas in the woods, or glorious landscapes of the 

 park-like Dhoon below. We fully enjoyed it, and 

 although the ascent was a stiff seven miles' tramp, 

 we were not the least fatigued on our arrival at 

 Mussoorie, where we put up at Wolf's Crag, a 

 comfortable and elegant little bungalow belonging 

 to a friend of Fred's, that was beautifully situated 

 on a rising ground facing the valley of the Dhoon. 

 So much has been written about this far-famed 

 salutarium, that I shall not enter into any detailed 

 account of it ; suffice it to say that the most glowing 

 descriptions I had read did not come up to the 

 reality. The scenery exceeded anything I. had 

 hitherto seen in magnitude and grandeur, and I 

 passed hours away gazing at the magnificent views 



