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with trenches for iron-washing, and some large marshes 

 were dammed up for the same purpose: in these we 

 found some beautiful balsams, Hypericum and Parnas- 

 sia ; also a diminutive water-lily, the flower of which is 

 no larger than a half-crown ; it proves to be the Nym/plicea 

 pygmoea of China and Siberia — a remarkable fact in the 

 geographical distribution of plants. 



BELLOWS. 



From Nonkreem we proceeded easterly to Pomrang, 

 leaving Chillong hill on the north, and again crossing the 

 Boga-panee, beyond which the sandstone appeared (strike 



