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particular name descriptive of each. Since we quitted the neighbourhood 

 of Bhadri-Ndt'k, we have seen none of the drooping species, and these 

 hills appear peculiarly favorable to the kind above described. The other 

 species, which produces the leaves in tufts, and rises in the form of a 

 cone, is to be found in most parts of the mountain; beyond the limits to- 

 which the common C/i/r extends* 



We passed two steep summits, called the Cdla-Cdnu smd Jardc'ki 

 Ghats y between which lay a quarry of very fine marble. Near the road 

 were several beautiful white slabs, twelve or fourteen feet in length, and 

 three or four in thickness^ 



We found the insects at this place- extremely troublesome. 



The atmosphere swarmed with myriads of small flies, resembling gnats^ . 

 the attacks of which it was impossible to guard against, and the sting was 

 exceedingly sharp and painful. On the road, we had another formi- 

 dable enemy to encounter, which was a numerous host of small leeches, 

 brought by the rain, and infesting the path, to the great annoy- 

 ance of travellers. We found that our shoes and stockings were not 

 proof against their attacks ; for, by some means or other, they found, 

 their way to the skin ; and our attendants, who were undefended in 

 their feet and legs, arrived in streaks of blood, having their lower 

 limbs completely covered with this noisome reptile. 



7th. Therm. 58°. Marched to Khtmhaghar, a village containing twenty 

 or thirty houses, and situated on a bank twenty feet high ; below which 

 we encamped. Lat. 30^ 16 34." N. The road lay through forests, and 

 we crossed two G'hdts or passes of the hills. We passed in sight of the 

 Nanddcni river, called here Bilret-ca-gdd, a large stream which joins 

 the Alacanandd at Nufidapraydga. 



