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engaged in purchasing a few articles of native workmanship, 

 my elephant made an attack on a sweetmeat stall, demo- 

 lishing a magnificent erection of barley-sugar, before his 

 proceedings could be put a stop to. 



Mr. Felle's bungalow (whose garden smiled with roses 

 in this wilderness) was surrounded by a moat (fed by 

 a spring), which was full of aquatic plants, Nymphcea, 

 Damasonium, Villarsia cristata, Aponogeton, three species 

 of Potamogeton, two of Naias, Chara and Zannichcllia (the 

 two latter indifferently, and often together, used in the 

 refinement of sugar). In a large tank hard by, wholly fed 

 by rain water, I observed only the Villarsia Indica, no 

 Aponogeton, Nymphcea, or Damasonium, nor did these occur 

 in any of the other tanks I examined, which were otherwise 

 well peopled with plants. This may not be owing to the 

 quality of the water so much as to its varying quantity in 

 the tank. 



All around here, as at Roump, is a dead flat, except 

 towards the crest of the ghats which overhang the valley 

 of the Soane, and there the sandstone rock rises by steps 

 into low hills. During a ride to a natural tank amongst 

 these rocky elevations, I passed from the alluvium to 

 the sandstone, and at once met with all the prevailing 

 plants of the granite, gneiss, limestone and hornstone rocks 

 previously examined, and which I have enumerated too 

 often to require recapitulation ; a convincing proof that the 

 mechanical properties and not the chemical constitution of 

 the rocks regulate the distribution of these plants. 



Rujubbund (the pleasant spot), is a small tarn, or 

 more properly the expanded bed of a stream, art having 

 aided nature in its formation : it is edged by rocks 

 and cliffs fringed with the usual trees of the neighbour- 

 hood ; it is a wild and pretty spot, not unlike some 



