CHAPTER IV. 



Leave Bhagulpore — Kunker — Col gong — Himalaya, distant view of — Cosi, mouth 

 of — Difficult navigation — Sandstorms — Caragola-Ghat — Purnea — Ortolans 

 — Mahanuddee, transport of pebbles, &c. — Betel-pepper, cultivation of — 

 Titalya — Siligoree — View of outer Himalaya — Terai — Mecbis — Punkabaree 

 — Foot of mountains — Ascent to Dorjiling — Cicadas — Leecbes— Animals 

 — Kursiong, spring vegetation of — Pacbeem — Arrive at Dorjiling — Dorjiling, 

 origin and settlement of — Grant of land from Rajah — Dr. Campbell appointed 

 superintendent — Dewan, late and present — Aggressive conduct of the latter 

 — Increase of the station— Trade — Titalya fair — Healthy climate for Europeans 

 and children — Invalids, diseases prejudicial to. 



I took as it were, a new departure, on Saturday, April 

 the 8th, my dawk being laid on that day from Caragola- 

 Ghat, about thirty miles down the river, for the foot of the 

 Himalaya range and Dorjiling. 



Passing the pretty villa-like houses of the English resi- 

 dents, the river-banks re-assumed their wonted features : 

 the hills receded from the shore ; and steep clay cliffs, 

 twenty to fifty feet high, on one side, opposed long sandy 

 shelves on the other. Kunker was still most abundant, 

 especially in the lower bed of the banks, close to the (now 

 very low) water. The strata containing it were much un- 

 dulated, but not uniformly so j horizontal layers over or 

 under-lying the disturbed ones. At Colgong, conical hills 

 appear, and two remarkable sister-rocks start out of the 

 river, the same in structure with those of Sultangunj. A 

 boisterous current swirls round them, strong even at this 

 season, and very dangerous in the rains, when the swollen 



