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GANGES VALLEY. 



Chap. TIL 



be given, turn out a first rate fowling-piece. The in- 

 habitants are reported to be sad drunkards, and the 

 abundance of toddy-palms was quite remarkable. The 

 latter, (here the Phceniw sylvestris,) I never saw wild, but it 

 is considered to be so in N.W. India ; it is still a doubtful 

 point whether it is the same as the African species. In the 

 morning of the following day I went to the hot springs of 

 Seeta-koond (wells of Seeta), a few miles south of the town. 



MONGHYR ON THE GANGES, WITH THE CURRUCKPORE HILLS IN THE DISTANCE. 



The hills are hornstone and quartz, stratified and dipping 

 southerly with a very high angle; they are very barren, 

 and evidently identical with those on the south bank of the 

 Soane ; skirting, in both cases, the granite and gneiss 

 range of Paras-nath. The alluvium on the banks of the 

 Ganges is obviously an aqueous deposit subsequent to the 

 elevation of these hills, and is perfectly plane up to their 



