6 Geographical Notice of Tibet. 
most frequently, in many places. All such petrifactions are 
denominated in Tibetan, according to the resemblance they. 
have to anything ; as, sheep-eye, sheep-horn, sheep-brain, swine- 
head, bird-leg, cow-tongue, stone-trumpet, etc. They are not 
objects of reverence in Tibet, neither of curiosity. Some o 
them, after being burnt and reduced to powder, are used as 
medicaments in certain diseases. 
In the whole of Tibet, there is, in general, a deficiency 
of wood, both for fuel and for building, or timber, especially 
in Nari and U-tsang. In Bhutan and Beltistan there are many 
sorts of fruit trees. In K’ham-yul there are some woods a 
forests. In the western part of Ladak and in Beltistan some 
vines are cultivated. Inmiddle Tibet and Ladak the mountains 
are in general naked, destitute of herb, grass, and every vege 
table. In the valleys, where the fields can be watered or irrigat- 
ed, several kinds of corn are produced, especially wheat, barley, 
buck-wheat, millet, peas, and some others. In dri and in 
the northern deserts of Tibet, there grow several kinds of medi- 
cal herbs and plants, and there are likewise good pastures ; but 
there are in the deserts no fields for producing corn, and wh 
they want they purchase from those who inhabit the southern 
parts of Nari, and give them in exchange yaks, sheep, wool, 
woollen cloth, salt, borax, ete. ; 
_ Rice is nowhere cultivated in Tibet. There are some 
kinds of pulse; as peas, bean, and lentils. There is no great 
variety of esculent plants. They have some turnips, cabbages, 
carrots, Onions, garlics, and a few others ; but for potherbs they 
use in general such greens as grow wild. In the western part 
of Ladak, in Purik, there is a certain plant (with bushy stalks), 
n 
| he daily food of the Tibetans consists, in general, of gruel, 
or thick pottage prepared from the meal of parched barley (sai), 
several kinds of flesh, bread, sour-milk, curds, potherbs, am . 
tea prepared in a particular manner in a churn, with butter, salt, 
people or races (or nations) among themselves ; as |: 
one dwelling in K’ham-yul. 2. i one inhabiting in U- 
