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tos ; at one mile from the crest of the Ghat we passed over laterite, 



then hornstone of various colors. We were now in a deeply wooded 



valley of great beauty, the principal trees consisting of Sakua, Carissa 



carundas, Butea, Diospyros, Terminalea, Grewia, Dalbergea, Bombax, 



Boswelia thurifera, Dyospyros ebenum, a variety of Bauhinias both 



B. scandens and B. variegata, besides a scattering of Mimosa catechu, 



a wild arrowroot, ferns, Euphorbia, Asclepiadese and Liquorice. As 



we advanced into the hills the jungles became more and more dense ; 



about a mile from the top of the Ghat we passed several heaps of iron 



slag, the refuse of the furnaces of the hill people, who collect the iron 



ore which is common all over these hills, smelt it in the rudest of 



furnaces and exchange the metal with the lowlanders for salt, tobacco, 



or rice ; at the second mile we stopped at a buffaloe " baithan" or 



night rendezvous for buffaloes, by name " Buneeara baithan/' changed 



our clothes, which were dripping wet from rain, drank some milk and 



proceeded through a narrow valley for two miles to the banks of the 



hot stream the Anjun, leaving Bhoondh Bhuraree a small village a 



few hundred yards to our right. Finding a fine deep pool of water in 



the stream with a temperature of 108° completely overshadowed with 



forest trees, we bathed, a most refreshing proceeding after our long and 



wet walk ; leaving the road we proceeded to the west, up a densely 



wooded and narrow valley ; the first part of the road was over a 



quaking moss bog, through which ran the Anjun ; half a mile brought 



us to the source of this hot stream which for the last quarter of a mile 



had become much too hot for our feet. The spot from whence the 



Anjun rises is at the end of a narrow valley, the water bursts from 



two orifices in a confused heap of Jaspideous hornstone rocks, bearing 



a peculiarly desolate appearance from the absence of vegetation on or 



near the rocks, and from the burnt up appearance of the hornstone 



from which the water is seen pouring out at a temperature of 145° 



Faht. a fine porous botryoidal silicious sinter deposited from the hot 



water covers all the rocks near the springs. The Anjun, after a short 



course of twelve miles, falls into the Nuktee, which latter stream falls 



into the Keeul a tributary to the Ganges into which it falls at Sooruj- 



gurha. A mile and a half brought us to Baboodera and Goormaha, 



two small hamlets on the banks and in the valley of the Anjun, around 



which a few hundred acres of land have been cleared, yielding a boun- 



