920 Journal of a trip through Kunawur. [Nov. 



that it did not yield to the tread, though the sun at 10 a. m. was 

 shining on it at a temperature of 82°, while the stream beneath was as 

 low as 38°. 



From this spot commenced a long ascent over the side of a grassy 

 hill, strewed with sweet smelling violets and the little searlet " phea- 

 sant's eye," and near the summit of which we encamped, being about 

 three miles from Rogee, which is the usual stage, but being situated 

 off the road at half a mile down the Khud, I preferred staying where 

 I was for the night. From this place we had a good view of the 

 Burrenda Pass which was indeed apparently only separated from us 

 by the deep glen through which the Sutledge flows; it was still 

 thickly covered with snow, and looked like a deep notch cut in the 

 snowy range. The hill above our encampment was also heavily 

 covered with snow, from which throughout the day, immense beds or 

 avalanches, loosened by the heat of the sun, were constantly precipi- 

 tated into the glen below, or falling from rock to rock with a heavy 

 and deadened roar like distant thunder, and resembling in their course 

 some mighty cataract. Towards evening as the sun dipped behind 

 the range and the first chills of night were coming on, these sounds 

 gradually died away, and the snow became once more bound up by 

 frost. The height of my camp here was 9,897 f ee ^ an d the little 

 lagomys and the chough were now first seen among the rocks that 

 overhung us ; here too, I once more found the purple iris, discovered 

 in my trip to the Burrenda pass, but it had not yet put forth a single 

 bud. On the 31st of May I continued my march towards Chini, by 

 a good road that continued to ascend for some distance, and at length 

 brought us to an elevation where many beautiful plants of iris were 

 in full bloom ; it was the same as that found at my last encampment, 

 and among them was a single root bearing a pure white flower, show- 

 ing modestly among the deep purple of the neighbouring plants, like a 

 fair bride surrounded by the gay and glad attire of the bridal train. 



A little farther up the ascent, at about 10,500 feet, I took some 

 splendid specimens of a new species of peepa, the largest of that genus 

 I have yet seen belonging to our Presidency. They were adhering 

 by a thin viscous plate to the stalk of a coarse grass, growing at the 

 roots of juniper and a species of furze bush, the latter beautifully 

 covered with yellow flowers. The species being new to science, I have 

 given it the name of " Peepa kunawurensis" from the district in 

 which I obtained it. Here too the rhubarb was growing abundantly, 

 and as I had now tasted no vegetables for many days, I gathered some 

 of the stalk and had an excellent stew for my dinner. 



