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to be of a benevolent disposition. At noon we arrived 

 at Condoalla, majestically situated in a lofty wood, and 



surrounded by plantations of Pisang. The tree 



foliis terminal, pennat. grew here in abundance. Its fruit 

 was not yet ripe. I observed flower-buds of the shrub 

 Echinophoro, which we saw in the district of Kullu. In 

 returning, I ascended the top of the high Madungo ^longo. 

 The rock in the valley consists chiefly of mica-slate, 

 stretchino- as usual towards N. E. and inclining under an 

 angle of fortj^-five degrees towards N. W. Undermost in the 

 valley, the slate is thickly mixed vvith a granular feldspar 

 and hornblende. The top part consists of a very loose 

 mica. The mountain here inclined gently in a long-ex- 

 tended slope. Its opposite side was covered with wood, 

 which was now on fire. I had a full view of the whole 

 valley, which from my station appeared very flat. The 

 river was seen behind in its whole course, forming several 

 larger islands in the line of Inga and my station. The 

 country behind rises into a platform of uniform elevaticm 

 with the plain on Avhich Inga is situated. The summits of 

 the hills are somewhat higher in the back-ground. Farther 

 still, at the extremity of the view, the river runs round an 

 eminence, but afterwards probably turns somewhat more 

 to the northward, where the country is considerably 

 lower. No eminence appeared more elevated than the 

 summits of the hills bounded by the horizon. The general 

 direction of the valleys and the plains is nearly N. and S. 

 I climbed up a lofty tree bearing fruit, some of which I 

 had previously brought down with my musket. I shot 



