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along the valley of the Kishen Gunga, by which Mr. Forster 

 travelled in 1783. Lieutenant Mackeson followed the first, 

 and I took the second. Mazufurabad, my route, lay hj a 

 steep and severe ascent from the valley of the Kishen 

 Gunga to a small village called Patlee ; thence along the 

 ridge of one of its shoulders to an elevated mountain, called 

 Peer Choonassee, richly covered with forest and alpine vege- 

 tation, and which yielded a large accession of specimens to 

 the herbarium. We passed the night a little below the 

 summit, and descended by a long and steep slope to Gun- 

 guni in the district of Punjcote. Prom Gimjunee the road 

 again touched on the Kishen Gunga, and conducted us to 

 the village of Teetival in Kurnah. Prom Teetival we passed 

 up through the fertile and highly cultivated valley of Kur- 

 nah to Tungtar. We had here arrived at the foot of the pass 

 which leads into Cashmeer on the morning of the 23rd. ^ We 

 ascended by an easy slope through a dense forest of pines, 

 sycamores, and horse-chestnuts. On emerging from the upper 

 limit of the forest the ascent was seen to be steep for a short 

 distance, but not so much as to be impracticable for a 

 mounted horse. Prom the summit of the pass, which is 

 called ISTutthoo Chunna, we had our first view of Cashmeer, 

 as confined to a small portion of the north-western end of 

 the valley. We descended and reached Ummur Ghur, in 

 the Pergunnah of Oontur. Prom Ummur Ghur I moved on 

 through the plain of Kamraj, passed down the river from 

 Sopur, and rejoined Lieutenant Mackeson at Baramula, on 

 September 26th. Thence we moved up towards the city of 

 Sopur, and thence to the city of Cashmeer, which we entered 

 on the 30th. By the orders of the Maharajah we were re- 

 ceived with every mark of consideration by the Governor, 

 Colonel Meean Sing. 



12. Lieutenant Mackeson, soon after our arrival, received 

 instructions from Captain Wade to return to Peshawur with 

 all practicable speed, and made his arrangements for leaving 

 the valley immediately. It became necessary for me to decide 

 on the course which I should adopt. The season for collect- 

 ing plants had nearly gone by before we reached Cashmeer, 

 and in consequence I had been able to gather but a small 

 portion of the flora. There was nothing that required me to 

 accompany Lieutenant Mackeson to Peshawur, and were I 

 to return through the hills to Hindostan, the object for 

 which I had been sent would have been very imperfectly 

 accomplished. I therefore resolved to winter in Cashmeer, 

 and complete my collections in the spring and summer. I 

 communicated my resolution to Captain Wade, with the 

 reasons that had led me to form it, which met with the con- 



