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fering materially in its elevation, but generally about 4^ degrees j and 

 moft frequently pointing in a line from north eaft, to fouth weil. 

 This formation was peculiarly evident in the rocks forming the banks^ 

 «of this part of the Jumna^ 



It would be pleafing to fpeak of the vegetable producflions of this 

 Temotc fpot, but here I am equally unable as in geological enquiries, to 

 fatisfy fcientific curiofity. Thofe trees and fhrubs which arc met with 

 through the whole range of this hilly trad, are alfo feen here, and there 

 are feveral additions, which ■could they be botanically defcribed, might 

 be interefting-. Of pines, thofe which refemble the filver and fpruce 

 iir,as well as one perfedly refembling the Weymouth pine with, two 

 Torts of Larch, are found j the birch, and a fpecies of the fycamores 

 oak of feveral forts, with a great profufion of trees and plants cover the 

 Tocksand hills, to the extent of the woody region; the ftrawberryj 

 l^oth the common fear let, and the uJpine forts, and fine and large of their 

 kinds, with rafpberry and blackberry bufhes, were very abundant; and 

 h€re for the hTft time I recognized the black currant bufh. 

 The round leafed rhubarb we alfo faw, but i could not 

 ,^nd, that the natives ufed it medecinally. The GorUhas ufed 

 their roots as a poultice, to apply to bruifes and hurts. The pundit 

 prefented me v/ith an herb of peculiar and very pleafant fmell which 

 he pulled from off the bare rocks, at the higheil part of one day's 

 journey, it was called Mdh^ and is confidered facred; it was very fmall^ 

 not growing above a to 3 inches m heighth, with a fmall bunch of 

 leaves re iembling fenneL 



Our return down the bed of the river was rendered fully more dif. 

 ficult and dangerous, by an increafe which had taken place in the fize 

 of the fl ream, fmce we afccnded* 



