748 Capt. Herbert's Tour from Almorah, fyc. [No. 153. 



dipping to W. A plant here used as a turkaree, bears black berries, 

 sown. 



\Qth Dec.— Nowgaon to Chundolee. Descend and cross river 

 along flat to Bhungar about 15 miles, fine peepul tree. Above Now- 

 goan Seeonsee, 1 hour to Sera. Bhakund-Purind; one and quarter 

 to Munjee. Above is Chundolee, opposite Domgla, large village, road 

 generally level, except last place steep ascent. River takes turn here. 

 Rocks, quartz rock, passing into greywacke. Therm. 64° to 39° cover- 

 ed with dew. 



11//* Dec— Chundolee to Syndhar, gentle ascent upside of hill, 

 oblique, £ an hour. Usoor Gurhee* to right high up, 50 miles to 

 Neelee, 65 to Myla, latterly ascending. Ascend Pass, descend to 

 stream and ascend to Kylmar. Descend again and ascend to Syndhar 

 which is in a lateral glen, and away from the Sanee. Rocks more 

 inclining to greywacke slate latterly. A good deal of very red earth 

 here; houses painted. Hills remarkably bare. 5. p. m. 25 535, 64.5. 

 56.52. soon after 52.2, 51. Opposite Neelee is Choundool. 



\2th Dec. — Thermometer min. 41, general fog. Up glen good 

 road and easy ascent, one hour to breakfast, as it was stated Soon- 

 kolee, the first village, was a long way, and no water procurable 

 beyond this point. 



Rocks, the argillaceous quartz rock and greywacke slate, the red- 

 dish type; fog still in valley at 10 a. m. Air 52, moist 50, in the 

 shade of a tree 49 46. 



Another observation gave in the tree shade 52.5, 48.5, and in the 

 sun 66.5, 56. Here the point of deposition must have been the same, 

 as the thermometers were kept nearly in the same spot. 



After breakfast proceeded one hour ascent to Pass. Bar. at 12 or a 

 little after, 23935, 53, 52, 45. Lungoort bearing by needle 275° 54'. 



Depression, 15.20 



R. 6.20 



10.50 



* Usoor Gurhee, one of the numerous hill forts with which this frontier of Kunaaon 

 and Gurhwal is studded. Joonia Gurh, Gunnea Gurh, Goojroo, &c. &c— J. H. B. 



f Lungoor fort, a conspicuous place in the South of Gurhwal, not far from the plains 

 at source of Kohriver. Here the Gurhwal Raja held out for some years against the 

 Goorkhalee invaders of his country.— J. H. B. 



