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that neither the position nor the elevation computed from 

 such data is worthy of confidence. 



Further still, to the extreme west, is an immense low 

 hog-backed mass of snow, with a small peak on it ; 

 this bears north-west, both from My rung and Nunklow, 

 subtending an angle of — 25' from the former, and — 17' 

 from the latter station. It is in all probability Chumulari, 

 210 miles distant from Nunklow. Donkia, if seen, would 

 be distant 230 miles from the same spot in the Khasia, 

 and Kinchinjunga 260 ; possibly they are visible (by 

 refraction) from Chillong, though even further from it. 



The distance from Myrung to Nunklow is ten miles, 

 along an excellent road. The descent is at first sudden, 

 beyond which the country is undulating, interspersed 

 with jungle (of low trees, chiefly oaks) and marshes, 

 with much rice cultivation. Grasses are exceedingly 

 numerous ; we gathered fifty kinds, besides twenty 

 Cyperacem : four were cultivated, namely sugar-cane, 

 rice, Coiv, and maize. Most of the others were not 

 so well suited to pasturage as those of higher localities. 

 Dwarf Phoenix palm occurs by the roadside at 5000 feet 

 elevation. 



Gneiss (with garnets) highly inclined, was the preva- 

 lent rock (striking north-east), and scattered boulders of 

 syenite became- very frequent. In one place the latter 

 rock is seen bursting through the gneiss, which is slaty 

 and very crystalline at the junction. 



Nunklow is placed at the northern extremity of a 

 broad spur that over-hangs the valley of the Burrarn- 

 pooter river, thirty miles distant. The descent from it is very 

 rapid, and beyond it none of the many spurs thrown 

 out by theKhasia attain more than 1,000 feet elevation; 

 hence, though the range does not present so abrupt a 



