1846.] and Boorun Passes over the Himalaya. 135 



tamian soothsayer, and we adopt afar off his exclamation — ' How goodly 

 are thy tents, Jacob, &c.' but the nearer and beatific vision of the 

 bazaar and its brimful stores, exalts our enthusiasm to the pitch of the 

 wizard of the north, and we end our pilgrimage by a gastronomic ap- 

 plication of his famous lines. — ' Breathes there the man, &c/ Those 

 heaps of flour and Shajehanpoor sugar are worth more than the purest 

 cones of snow in the frosty Caucasus ; those gram-fed fleeces than its 

 shaggiest woods ; those cases of aqua-vitse, more soul- satisfying than its 

 loudest water-falls. Rapt into future dinners, the Deotahs of the un- 

 friendly rocks and snows of Emaus descend to insipid nonentities in 

 comparison of Messrs. Barrett and Company, who are confessed the true 

 dispensers of the good things of this life to all who can pay for them 

 and to some who cannot. 



Rough Notes on the Zoology of Candahar and the neighbouring Districts. 



By Captain Thomas Hutton, of the Invalids, Mussoori ; with Notes 



by Ed. Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum. 

 ( Continued from Vol. XIV, p. 354 J 



No. 20. The Wild Hog. These are plentiful among the high rushes 

 at the lower extremity of the Bolan Pass, where they conceal themselves 

 during the day, but issuing forth at night, they proceed to ravage the 

 cultivation around Dadur. They are also numerous in similar covers 

 on the Helmund and in Seistan around the lake. 



They are hunted but not eaten. They do not appear to differ from 

 the common wild hog of the Upper Provinces of India. 22 



22. In Mr. Gray's catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the British Museum, 

 the "Indian wild boar" is styled Sus indicus : and Mr. Elliot had previously 

 pointed out the following differences between it and the European one. "The 

 Indian wild hog," remarks the latter naturalist, " differs considerably from the Ger- 

 man. The head of the former is longer and more pointed, and the plane of the fore- 

 head straight, while it is concave in the European. The ears of the former are small 

 and pointed, in the latter large, and not so erect. The Indian is altogether a more 

 active-looking animal ; the German has a stronger heavier appearance. The same 

 differences are perceptible in the domesticated individuals of the two countries." 

 (Madr. Journ. No. XXV, 219.) Vide Cuvier's « Ossemens Fossiles', pi. lxi, for figures 

 of the skull of the European boar, but which would seem to have been taken from a 

 domestic individual. 



In the Society's Museum are two very different forms of Indian wild boar skulls, 

 especially characterized apart by the contour of the vertex and occiput. In a particu- 



