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tween Bootan and the Lama's country, or Great Thibet. From 

 this hmit, to the great river Btcrrampooter, is in many places 

 a hundred and fifty miles in extent. The river Teejla rifes 

 not far from the former, and haftens fouth through Bootan 

 and Bengal^ till it is loft near Dacca in Be?7gal. 



This country rifes into mountains of prodigious height. 

 The fummits eternally covered Math fnow, the fides M'ith 

 Trees. forefts of ftately trees of various kinds; fome, fvich as pines, 



afpens, birch, cyprefs and yew, holly and elder; afli is un- 

 common, oaks have not yet been difcovered in Bootan ; firs, 

 and others known in Europe^ others again peculiar to the country 

 and climate. Many of thefe forefts are ufelefs to mankind, 

 being placed amxidft rocks inaccefiible. At their bafe, the val- 

 lies and fides are cultivated, and are produdlive of wheat, 

 barley, and even rice. In the depth of the valUes rufli num- 

 bers of furiovis torrents, which, increafing in their courfe, 

 .and at length gaining the plains, are loft in the rivers of 

 Bengal. 



The objefts wiiich ]\h\ Saunders had in view in his travels, 

 was a knowledge of the vegetable and mineral kingdom ; we 

 may expe<ft from his fkill ample knowlege of both. At Bux- 

 nduar, on the north fide of the mountains which bound the 



fouth of the Deeb Rajab's country, in Lat. 26° cS', Mr. Saun- 

 Plants, Ben- -" ^' 



GALESEi ders tells us, that many of the plants of Bengal there require 



culture; yet many of the plants of the torrid zone grow there 



in the wild jungles ; for example, a fpecies of plantain (Mufa) 



M-ith a broad leaf, ufeful for thatching ; the Bengal kind will 



not thrive here. In the jungle near Af^/zvy^'ow^- , twenty miles 



farther 



