CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Sunderbunds vegetation — Calcutta Botanic Garden — Leave for Burdwan — Rajah's 

 gardens and menagerie — Coal-beds, geology, and plants of — Lac insect and 

 plant — Camels — Kunker — Cowage — Effloresced soda on soil — Glass, manu- 

 facture of — Atmospheric vapours — Temperature, &c. — Mahowa oil and 

 spirits — Maddaobund — Jains — Ascent of Paras-nath — Vegetation of that 

 mountain ............ 



CHAPTER II. 



Doomree — Vegetation of table-land — Lieutenant Beadle — Birds — Hot springs of 

 Soorujkoond — Plants near them — Shells in them — Cholera-tree — Olibanum 

 — Palms, form of — Dunwah pass — Trees, native and planted — Wild peacock 

 — Poppy fields — Geography and geology of Behar and Central India — Toddy- 

 palm — Ground, temperature of — Baroon — Temperature of plants — Lizard 

 — Cross the Soane — Sand, ripple-marks on — Kymore hills — Ground, tempe- 

 rature of — Limestone — Rotas fort and palace — Nitrate of lime — Change of 

 climate — Lime stalagmites, enclosing leaves — Fall of Soane — Spiders, &c. — 

 Scenery and natural history of upper Soane valley — Hardwickia binata — 

 Bhel fruit — Dust-storm — Alligator — Catechu — Cochlospermum — Leaf- 

 bellows — Scorpions — Tortoises — Florican — Limestone spheres — Coles — 

 Tiger-hunt — Robbery 25 



CHAPTER III. 



Ek-powa Ghat — Sandstones — Shahgunj — Table-land, elevation, &c. — Gum-arabic 

 — Mango — Fair — Aquatic plants — Rujubbund — Storm — False sunset and 

 sunrise — Bind hills — Mirzapore — Manufactures, imports, &c. — Climate — 

 Thuggee — Chunar — Benares — Mosque — Observatory — Sar-nath — 

 Ghazeepore — Rose-gardens — Manufactory of attar — Lord Cornwallis' tomb 

 — Ganges, scenery and natural history of — Pelicans — Vegetation — Insects — 

 Dinapore — Patna — Opium godowns and manufacture — Mudar, white and 

 purple — Monghyr islets — Hot springs of Seetakoond — Alluvium of Ganges — 

 Rocks of Sultun-gunj — Bhaugulpore — Temples of Mt. Man den — Coles and 

 native tribes — Bhaugulpore rangers — Horticultural gardens . . .59 



