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cataracts of the first class that are thus precipitated over 

 the bare table-land on which Clmrra stands, into the 

 valleys on either side, surpass anything of the kind that I 

 have elsewhere seen, though in many respects vividly 

 recalling the scenery around Rio de Janeiro : nor do I 

 know any spot in the world more calculated to fascinate 

 the naturalist who, while appreciating the elements of 

 which a landscape is composed, is also keenly alive to the 

 beauty and grandeur of tropical scenery. 



At the point where this view opens, a bleak stony region 

 commences, bearing numberless plants of a temperate flora 

 and of European genera, at a comparatively low elevation ; 

 features which continue to the top of the flat on which the 

 station is built, 4000 feet above the sea. 



DEWAN S EAR-RING. 



