46g STOV'Elf' OF' THl: aANGE^v 



iQthc Marched to Bdkan Devi, a small village, so called from a tem«- 

 ple which it contains, dedicated to a deity of that name. Distance computed. 

 seven and an half miles, about N« E. by N;.. "We crossed' another moun- 

 tain, estimated at about, one thousand and two hundred': feet high;. The- 

 thermometer in the morning was at 48 j°, and on this, mountain we; were, 

 delighted to recognize, among its vegetable produ61ions,many of our Euro^ 

 /i-eaw acquaintance, as the peacfi, apricot, walnut, strawberry, raspberry,. 

 dandelion, butter flower and white rose„ Near the temple of Bdhan 

 Devi stood a fine spreading fir, of the species which the natives call Deo- 

 dar* It yields a great quantity of pitch, and the trunk acquires much 

 larger 'dimensions than the Chti\ The wood is more solid and durable, 

 on which account it is more prized by the natives for all purposes of 

 building. — The adjacent hills were covered with forests of this tree, 



20th. Marched to Ldllan, 2. very small village, situated in latitude^. 

 by observation, so°33' S3" N. Thermometer in the morning 52**. 



_On the first part of the march, the land on the road side was well culti« 

 vated, and even the sides of the hills were cut into small plats, rising one 

 above the other, faced witli .stones and watered; by the small streams 

 which issue from the heights, and are conduced from the upper-' to the .; 

 Iower platforms in succession. Here we found the Bopransf and the- 

 Bmjaa. spepje^. 9f.,Q-^. The mountains, are covered with immense forests ^j 

 of these trees. 



Until, one o'clock we had feeen -gradually ascending, when we came 

 to a small space of table land, whence we beheld a sight the most sub- 

 lime and aweful that can be pictured to theimacrination. We v/ere now 



* Pinvs Doedwara Rox. 



f Rhododendron punicmm Rox, described hy CoL Hakdwicke, As, Rs. Ye C. p. S39. 



