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sea, is thrown across the Buspa, for the Pooaree and Cheena road ; but 

 our route lay up the rough, stony path on the left bank — the river a per- 

 fect torrent, in a very deep confined gully, where the channel is 

 choked by huge boulders. At the fifth or sixth mile, we should have 

 quitted the gorge, and ascended to Brooung : but we had loitered 

 behind the coolies, and proceeding to the Brooung stream, were in full 

 route to Sungla, when we fortunately met its Mookheea on his way to 

 Ralee, who shewed us our mistake, and directed us back up a steep 

 ascent of about 800 feet, where we lost our way again in a wilderness 

 of fruit trees, and got at least 500 feet above the village, which, after 

 two hours' wandering in complete uncertainty, we at length hit on quite 

 accidentally. It is a poor scattered place, just above the left bank of 

 the stream from the Boorun Ghatee, the snows and peaks of which 

 are seen above : the inhabitants are a meagre, sickly race. It seems 

 to be the place called Soorung, in the trigonometrical map — one 

 of its manifold errors in typography. The elevation is generally given 

 7,411 feet, but in a German map, published at Berlin, it is stated to be 

 8,820 feet, (Paris) or 9,400 English, which is certainly too much. 



On rivulets flowing into the Buspa, I noticed to-day a species of 

 Tussilago (colts-foot) with the habit of T. petasites ; it is said in May 

 and June to produce fragrant yellowish flowers. With it grew the 

 Polygonum runcinatum of Don's Prodromus. 



September 18th. — From Brooung to Sungla, about twelve miles, in 

 seven hours. For half this distance the path rises and falls along the 

 left bank of the Buspa through beautiful scenery, the precipitous rocks 

 feathered with the neoza pine, here generally called Shungtee and Ree. 

 The course by the river then becomes impracticable ; and a steep ascent 

 of 2,000 feet succeeds nearly up to Chansoo, with a line of stupendous 

 precipices to the right, the pents and ledges of which are clothed with 

 splendid cedar and kail (Pinus excelsa,) many of the latter not under 

 150 feet in height. To the left, the Buspa rages in a series of cataracts 

 through a tremendous abyss, which succeeds its comparatively level 

 course over the Sungla valley. Boisterous indeed is the career of this 

 aquatic Richard : its average fall being 250 feet per mile. The brink and 

 face of the steep on this side is fringed with many superb old tabular- 

 headed cedars, their gigantic boughs thrown about in wild disorder, like 

 Lear, with outstretched arms, appealing in vain to the unpitying heavens. 



