1i2 A SuRVEY OF THE 
BarnomeTER.—The tube heated, and then gradually filled with mer- 
cury, half an inch at a time, and the bubbles which were perceptible 
driven out by gently beating against the places they were seen als 
ee The mercury stood at ......-sc0+00918, 804 
Detached thermometer... .. 55 
Attached — ditto.........93 
Height of the place above the level of the sea 12,914 feet. 
Water boils at 19275 ; which, according to Mr. Kirwan’s table, answers 
to a barometer of 19. 5, 
_ We are about 150 feet above the bed of the river. . By day the sun is 
powerful, although we are so surrounded by snow; but the peaks reflect 
the rays.— When the sun sunk behind the mountains, it was very colds. 
at night it froze. High as we are, the clouds yet rise higher. —The colour, 
of the sky is a deep blue. —What soil there is, is spungy.—A few birch 
bushes are yet seen 3 but a large and strong ground tree or creeper oyer 
spreads the ground, somewhat in the manner of furze or brambles 5 and it Is. 
a curious fact that the wood of this, is, we think, that of which the. cases. 
of black lead pencils are made, being of a fine brittle, yet soft red grain g- 
and the smell is the same as of that used@-for the pencils, and which has 
hitherto been called by us cedar. I have specimens of this wood; it is 
called, I think, Chundun: I saw it on the summit of the Chour peak, and 
in the snowy regions of Kunaur, but did not then examine it-—It will be 
found, probably, thatthe Pinus Cedrus or Cedar of Lebanon is the Deodar. 
(cr as it is called to the Westward, the Kaz/ow), and no other.—Nor} do 
our mountain cedars (24 feet in circumference) yield in size or durability; 
