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bees through a small round hole ; the door of this box or hive opens 

 into the room, by which means the honey is easily taken out, and that 

 too without, as in Europe, sacrificing a great number of the bees, for 

 by blowing the smoke of burning grass or straw into the box through 

 the doorway, the bees are driven out by the external hole, and thus 

 the swarm is uninjured, and a portion of honey being left in the box, 

 soon entices them back again. 



In this village was a temple of Devi only half finished, and the 

 villagers begged us to give them some quicksilver as they intended 

 to consecrate the building in two days' time, and the mineral was 

 required to complete the ceremony. 



On the 8th we started at daybreak and breakfasted at Janglig, 

 which is the last, and according to Dr. Gerard, the highest village in 

 the valley of the Pabbar, being 9257 feet above the sea, and is the 

 usual halting -place for travellers, being about six miles and a half 

 from Piki ; but wishing to get on we proceeded another march 

 through very pretty woods and interesting scenery to Liti. The 

 latter part of the march, however, was wild and barren enough, no 

 trees growing except a few straggling birches, and these ceased also 

 before we got to Liti, the hills being merely clothed with rank 

 grass and weeds. 



Several kinds of rose trees were in abundance in these forests, and 

 on the open hills many beautiful flowers were still in blossom not- 

 withstanding their proximity to the snow and the lateness of the 

 season. The greater part were, however, bearing seed or had shed 

 it. Many flowers which on our leaving Simla were only just opening 

 were here bearing ripe seed or had shed it, and the reason is obvious 

 enough, for in these cold and elevated regions winter treads so fast 

 upon the heels of summer that were the frost to set in before the seeds 

 were perfected, plants would be destroyed and thus all animals, and 

 in a few years perennials also, would become extinct : by flowering 

 early and shedding their seeds before the wintery blast has power to 

 hurt them, this is beautifully guarded against ! What care and fore- 

 sight is here displayed by the allwise ruler of the seasons ; what 

 circumstance or event, however minute, however trifling it may 

 appear to us, if the well being of this world be at all dependent on it, 

 is overlooked or disregarded by his most gracious providence ? 



I collected great quantities of the seeds of a beautiful yellow flower 

 called by Royle Corvisartia I/idica; this author gives Pirpanjdl 

 and Cashmere as the habitats of the plant ; I found it in flower on 

 the side of Hattu mountain in the month of September and widely 



