Sept. 1850. 



AMWEE BRIDGE. PITCHER-PLANT. 



81 S 



crops. We crossed a stream by a bridge formed of one 

 gigantic block of sandstone, 20 feet long, close to the village, 

 which is a Avretched one, and is considered unhealthy : it 

 stands on the high road from Jynteapore (at the foot of the 

 hills to the southward) to Assam : the only road that crosses 

 the mountains east of that from Churra to Nunklow. 



Though so much lower, this country, from the barren- 

 ness of the soil, is more thinly inhabited than the Khasia. 



mmm 



OLD BRIDGE AT AMWEE. 



The pitcher-plant {Nepenthes) grows on stony and 

 grassy hills about Amwee, and crawls along the ground ; 

 its pitchers seldom contain insects in the wild state, nor 

 can we suggest any special function for the wonderful 

 organ it possesses. 



About eight miles south of the village is a stream, 

 crossed bv a bridge, half of which is formed of slabs of 

 stone (of which one is twenty-one feet long, seven broad, 

 and two feet three and a half inches thick), supported on 

 piers, and the rest is a well turned arch, such as I have not 



