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Ammania rotundifolia. 



Plantago lanceolata. 



Procris " Souchula," used as a pot-herb. 



Nasturtium officinale. 



Drymaria cordata. 



Acoruscalamus : "Buj." " Goor-buch." 



Coix gigantea. 



Egnisetum. 



Adenostemma latifolia. 



Epilobium (cylindricum ? Don.) 



Mentha Royleana. 



Hydrocotyle tenella. 



Polygonum horridum : here only : abundant. 



December 25. — From Bheemtal to Mulooa Tal, 8 or 9 miles East. 

 Path rugged, gradually ascending an arid quartz mountain, of which 

 the last ascent, at 3 miles, is composed of an exceedingly hard syenitic 

 greenstone, of which Captain Herbert detected scattered fragments only 

 near Bheemtal. He appears to have passed this district almost unaware 

 of the predominence of this class of rocks. The brow of this moun- 

 tain, known as the Ekwye Binaik, is from 5500 to G000 feet above the 

 sea ; it slopes south in a richly cultivated talus, to the Noukoochia Tal, 

 a pretty tarn, embosomed in low rounded hills ; the outline broken into 

 deep bays, originates the name, which signifies " Nine-angled." Its 

 level (4368 feet) is somewhat below that of Bheemtal. Each lake 

 sends forth its stream, which, meeting in the centre of the dale, form 

 the Burokhuree. About the junction, there is an extensive formation 

 of green and slate-coloured clay, called Komet, used in washing walls, 

 &c. arguing perhaps the former extension and even union of the two 

 lakes. 



Fully 2000 feet below the Ekwye Pass to the East, flows the Goula, 

 in its narrow and beautiful ravine : beyond this rises a lofty oak-cover- 

 ed spur of the Gagur, in the highest and remotest recesses of which are 

 the sources of this river. The people call the spot the Champee ka 

 gar, denoting probably the Satchoolia Group, East of the Gagur Pass ; 

 this latter also furnishes its tributary. 



Descended S. E. over quartz rock, and amongst pine, oak, rhodo- 

 dendron, and a coppice of iEchmarjthera, to the Goula, at Sukinjala 



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