July, 1849. 



ARRIVAL AT TUNGU. 



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while mushrooms and other English fungi * grew amongst 



the grass. 



Tungn occupies a very broad valley, at the junction of 

 the Tungu-choo from the east, and the Lachen from the 

 north. The hills slope gently upwards to 16,000 feet, at 

 an average angle of 1 5° ; they are flat and grassy at the 



TUNGU VILLAGE. 



base, and no snow is anywhere to be seen.f A stupendous 

 rock, about fifty feet high, lay in the middle of the valley, 



* One of great size, growing in large clumps, is the English Agaricus comans, Fr., 

 and I found it here at 12,500 feet, as also the beautiful genus Crucibulum, which 

 is familiar to us in England, growing on rotten sticks, and resembling a dimi- 

 nutive bird's nest with eggs in it. 



+ In the wood-cut the summit of Chomiomo is introduced, as it appears from a 

 few hundred feet above the point of view. 



