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TERAI. 



Chap. XVII. 



I may mention, however, that the appearance of inversion 

 of the strata at the foot of great mountain-masses has been 

 observed in the Alleghany chain, and I believe in the Alps.* 



A MECH, NATIVE OF THE S1KK1M TERAI. 



A poor Mech was fishing in the stream, with a basket 

 curiously formed of a cylinder of bamboo, cleft all round 

 in innumerable strips, held together by the joints above and 

 below ; these strips being stretched out as a balloon in the 



* Dr. M'Lelland informs me that hi the Curruckpore hills, south of the Ganges, 

 the clay-slates are overlain by beds of mica-slate, gneiss, and granite, which pass 

 into one another. 



