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face to the Burrampooter as it does to the Jheels, 

 Nunklow is considered as on the brink of its north slope. 

 The elevation of the bungalow is 4,688 feet, and the climate 

 being hot, it swarms with mosqnitos, fleas, and rats. It 

 commands a superb view to the north, of the Himalayan 

 snows, of the Burrampooter, and intervening malarious 

 Terai forest ; and to the south, of the undulating Khasia, 

 with Kollong rock bearing south-west. All the hills 

 between this and Myrung look from Nunklow better 

 wooded than they do from Myrung, in consequence of 

 the slopes exposed to the south being bare of forest. 



A thousand feet below the bungalow, a tropical forest 

 begins, of figs, birch, horse-chestnut, oak, nutmeg, Cedrela, 

 Engelhardtia, Artocarpece, and Elceocarpus, in the gullies, and 

 tall pines on the dry slopes, which are continued down to 

 the very bottom of the valley in which flows the Bor-panee, 

 a broad and rapid river that descends from Chillong, and 

 winds round the base of the Nunklow spur. Many of the 

 pines are eighty feet high, and three or four in diameter, 

 but none form gigantic trees. The quantity of balsams in. 

 the wet ravines is very great, and tree-ferns of several 

 kinds are common. 



The Bor-panee is about forty yards wide, and is spanned 

 by an elegant iron suspension-bridge, that is clamped to 

 the gneiss rock (strike north-east, dip north-west) on either 

 bank ; beneath is a series of cascades, none high, but all of 

 great beauty from the broken masses of rocks and pic- 

 turesque scenery on either side. We frequently botanised 

 up and down the river with great success : many curious 

 plants grow on its stony and rocky banks, and amongst 

 them Rhododendron formosum at the low elevation of 2000 

 feet. A most splendid fern, Dipteris Wallichii, is abun- 

 dant, with the dwarf Phoenix palm and Cycas pectinata. 



