584 Asiatic Society. [No. 126. 



2274 



rock specimens, thus: No. 160 — Greenish white quartzose rock, &c. &c. 

 No. 2275 



161. Greyish rock approaching to porphyritic. 

 The 3rd vol. is, I believe, first in order of time, but the dates of months are for the 

 most part given, and not those of years. Priasep's note makes the year of ihis Journal 

 to be 1826, and this would appear to be correct. It begins with Chilkeea, the mart 

 for hill productions between the Kumaon Terrai and Casheepoor; thence the Journal 

 describes Herbert's tour up the Kosilla river into the Kumaon Hills via. Dhikkolee and 

 Chokoom as far as Okuldoonga, where he left the river and ascended to Tarket. It 

 then shews his return to Chilkeea, and passage through the Terrai to Haldooa and 

 Casheepoor, and thence along the edge of the forest in a westerly direction to Juspoor' 

 Burrapooi'a, Kadirkote, and Nujeebabad to Nagul, where he crosses the Ganges, and 

 marches by Bhogpoor to Hurdwar, and thence through the lower hills and Doon to 

 Dhera. At Hurdwar, Capt. Herbert makes the following note : " I begin here to 

 number my second thousand with the printed Nos. from I," but in all this vol. there 

 are double numbers, thus : — 

 77.4} 



78 5r 



7Q fir ro ^ e( l specimens, chiefly hornblendic sent to Dehea. 

 807 ) 



The larger numbers representing, it would seem, the general series ; the smaller, the 

 series obtained at any particular spot. From Dehra, Herbert made excursions to 

 Sunsur-Dhara, the celebrated dripping rock, and Col. Young's house on the hills, 

 called "the Potatoe Garden," now a part of the great station of Mussooree. His 

 geological observations here are very full, as are those in the range near Hurdwar. 

 At Dehra he examined Mr. Shore's well, and describes its strata to the depth of 221 1 

 feet. He afterwards describes his march through the Doon and across the Jumna to 

 Kalsee, where he regularly enters the hills. He thence marches through Jounsar, 

 Joobul, &c. by a circuitous route to the Burin or Brooang Pass, (the Borendo of the 

 Simla folk,) thence down the Pabur river to the Tonse, and Jumna countries, and to 

 Dehra Doon by the Aglar valley and over Mussooree range. From Dehra Doon to 

 Suharunpoor, Meeruth, Moradabad, Ganges Ghat, and down the river to Calcutta, and 

 on his way down he narrowly escaped drowning at Colgong. In this vol. there are 

 mention of 379 specimens, and Herbert in a note written in July 1827, (at Almorah 

 I believe,) says, that these specimens were left at Moradabad, and had by an accident, 

 become very much damaged in their envelopes. He records the shape of the labels 



in this series (viz. the 2nd 1000) as 

 remaining numbers. 



and he notes the doubtful, loose and 



The country described in this volume has been subsequently examined by numerous 

 travellers, as it is that chiefly visited from Simla and Mussooree, and I do not think 

 that anything very novel will be brought to light by the Journal : — but, if it can give 

 a clue to the labels and specimens at Calcutta, you will think it valuable, and I there- 

 fore propose to despatch this vol. to-morrow to your address. Allusions in it are 

 frequent, I see, to places in Kumaon, as Powree ; at Sreenuggur Dheeanneekot near 

 Almorah ; Jilmilputteen near Kedarnath ; Punnae on the Aluknunda, noted for its 



