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nacles are more remote, and rise from a tract of undulating ground 

 strewed with great rocks and covered with forest and bmshwood. At 

 two miles from Diwalee passed a hut and grazing ground, called Toon 

 Paehurree, a little to the east of which a superb cascade falls from 

 the heights in three distinct leaps. One advantage of the late rain and 

 snow is that these falls are now in perfection. 



Approaching Dooglee the glen becomes very narrow, and the wild 

 crags and bluffs above the forest across the river, now mantled in an 

 unbroken sheet of snow, are but a few hundred yards distant ! The 

 accommodation provided here by nature for the wayfarer consists of a 

 most enormous mass of mica-slate, a little above the road to the east : 

 its western face projects gradually so much as to afford a tolerable shelter 

 in the worst weather, as I had soon an opportunity of testing ; for the 

 heavy clouds drifting up the valley turned to rain at 3 p. m., which 

 continued for an hour and a half; but though it was bitterly cold, the 

 Oodiyar remained waterproof. Several similar rocks are grouped here 

 and there in the vicinity, on which the spreading Juniper grows freely : 

 the site also being just at the highest verge of the forest, must be 

 about 11,500 feet above the sea. The wild goat is said to be very 

 numerous hereabouts : and I noticed several flocks of the " SnDw 

 Pigeon ;" higher up, amongst the cliffs at Pinduree, the Chough is 

 common. The vegetation towards Diwalee comprises the trees before 

 specified, with Silver Fir (Picea Webbiana and Pindrow) ; Birch (Betula 

 Bhojpatra), Rhododendron arboreum and barbatum, Maples, Jamuna 

 Cherry, with coppice of Viburnum nervosum and cotinifolium, Rosa 

 Webbiana and Sericea, " Sephula" of the Bhotiahs, Berberis brachys- 

 tachys (Edgeworth,) Jasminum revolutum, Syringa Emodi (" Gheea,") 

 Lonicera obovata and Webbiana, several sallows, the red and the white 

 fruited mountain-ash, Pyrus foliolosa, " Sullia," " Hullia," (the letters 

 s and h are interchangeable here, as in Latin compared with Greek ;) 

 and extensive thickets of Rhododendron campanulatum ; while the pas- 

 tures and streams abound with alpine plants, such as Spiraea Kamt- 

 chatkika, Cynoglossum uncinatum, " koora," aplotaxis aurita, Carduns 

 heteromallus (Don), " Sum-kuniou," Swertia perfoliata, " Simuria," 

 Cyananthus lobata, Impatiens moschata and Gigantea (Edgeworth,) 

 Rhodiola imbricata (ditto,) Saxifraga parnassisefolia, Caltha Himalen- 

 sis, Elshottzia polystaehya and Strobilifera, Podophyllum Emodi, Sal- 



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