750 Capt. Herbert's Tour from Almorah, §c. [No. 153. 



Cloudy, crossed one ridge and round glen, cross a second and descend ; 

 mango trees here, good road. Ther. max. 73.5, min. 50, dew 61.8, 

 cloudy. 



17th Dec. — Thermometer 50, dew. Cloudy. Choumasoo to Bud 

 Kholoo, time 2J hours, level along river bank for two miles through 

 cultivation, one mile to Oaklet, cross river four times, and Chipila, 

 here close by village, once. 



Barometer at the confluence of Chippula and Sanee, 9 a. m. 28.16, 

 62.5, 60.3, 56.5, river 58. Latterly road much obstructed by round 

 stones and jungle rock. The greywacke slate continues, but chang- 

 ing a little in character. There are the greenish grey beds too which 

 distinguish the junction of this formation and the sandstone. The 

 rocks are in fact exactly like what we have above the Buleea,* and 

 also above Bar,f color purple-blue, more rarely olive, cloudy day ; 

 the max. 72.5. The Chippula is much smaller than the Nyar, the 

 latter is getting a great body; a road goes to Lungoor from Choumasoo 

 by Koolharoo. 



Specimens. 



10/^ Dec. — No. 55, 1807- A greenish sub-schistose, scaly grey, 

 wacke slate, less of quartz than the preceding; breaks with a hackly 

 transverse fracture, (structure, bJaded ?) 



llth Dec. — No. 56, 1808. An undoubted quartz rock, bluish grey, 

 contains little mica. 



No. 57, 1809. A variegated sub-schistose, irregularly-bladed grey- 

 wacke slate, predominant color buff, intersected by veins of argillace- 

 ous matter and of quartz. 



\2th Dec. — No. 58, 1810. A bluish green slate, contains mica, with 

 an approximating appearance to talcose schist, structure lamellar, like 

 an oyster shell. 



No. 59, 1811. Ditto olive, contains mica, much nearer talc slate, 

 curved laminae. 



No. 60, 1812. Fine greywacke slate, the scales of mica not distin- 

 guishable without a lens; more talcose, sub-schistose, quite soft. 



13th Dec — No. 61, 1813. Ditto, dark olive, talcose lustre and very 

 soft. 



* Bulea, between Bheemtal and Bamowree. 

 t Barh, at foot of Simla hills.— J. H. B. 



