CHAPTER XXX. 



View of Himalaya from the Khasia — Great masses of snow — Chumulari — Donkia — ■ 

 Grasses — Nunklow — Assam valley and Burrampooter — Tropical forest — Bor- 

 panee — Rhododendrons — Wild elephants — Blocks of Syenite — Return to 

 Churra — Coal — August temperature — Leave for Chela — Jasper hill — Birds 



— Anmdina — Habits of leaf-insects — Curious village — Houses — Canoes — 

 Boga-panee river — Jheels — Chattuc — Churra — Leave for Jyntea hills — 

 Trading parties — Dried fish — Cherries — Cinnamon — Fraud — Pea-violet — 

 Nonkreem — Sandstone — Pines — Granite boulders — Iron washing — Forges 



— Tanks — Siberian Nymphcea — Barren country — Pomrang — Podostemon — 

 Patchouli plant — Mooshye — Enormous stone slabs — Pitcher-plant — Joowye 

 cultivation and vegetation — IfydropeUis — i$u]kj hostess — Nurtiung — Ham- 

 amelis chinensis — Bor-panee river — Sacred grove and gigantic stone 

 structures — Altars — Pyramids, &c. — Origin of names — Vanda coerulea — 

 Collections — November vegetation — Geology of Khasia — Sandstone — Coal 

 — Lime — Gneiss — Greenstone — Tidal action — Strike of rocks — Comparison 

 with Rajmahal hills and the Himalaya. 



The snowy Himalaya was not visible during our first stay 

 at Myrung, from the 5th to the 10th of July ; but on three 

 subsequent occasions, viz., 27th and 28th of July, 13th to 

 17th October, and 22nd to 25th October, we saw these 

 magnificent mountains, and repeatedly took angular heights 

 and bearings of the principal peaks. The range, as seen from 

 the Khasia, does not form a continuous line of snowy moun- 

 tains, but the loftiest eminences are conspicuously grouped 

 into masses, whose position is probably between the great 

 rivers which rise far beyond them and flow through Bhotan. 

 This arrangement indicates that relation of the rivers to the 

 masses of snow, which I have dwelt upon in the Appendix ; 



