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in perpetual white. They reflect a pinkish tinge, and are thus easily 

 distinguished from the clouds below them. The valley of Asam, covered 

 with clouds, looked like a vast white sea. 



2d. — Accompanied Capt. Jones to the bottom of the Nanklow hill, a 

 distance of four miles, one continued descent, through most beautiful groves 

 of fir and hill bambu, with the most exquisite views of the hills and rocks 

 above and below, from the different elevations, that can be imagined — crossed 

 a brook, and, after a further descent, in an hour and a half's walking and 

 riding, arrived at the Boga river. Here is a fall of about sixty feet, the 

 river rushing and breaking with fury over rocks, some of them almost 

 perpendicular — immediately over the fall is a bridge formed of deal spars, 

 built by Mr. Scott — it is upwards of one hundred feet long — some of the 

 trees, on which it is supported, were carried away last rains. The fall is 

 received in a large bason, thirty feet deep in the middle and sixty yards 

 in diameter. This bason, with the bridge and the over-hanging rocks 

 and trees, and surrounding scenery, is one of the most beautiful spots I 

 ever visited. The rock, which is extremely hard, is of serpentine. In 

 places, it has been completely honeycombed by the action of the water — 

 large lumps of pure quartz and granite boulders, with other rocks, in 

 detached pieces, abound here, and beautiful flowers and creeping plants 

 complete the scene. 



3d. — Rode to Prospect Rock, properly so called — the view it com- 

 mands of the Garo hills, the plain of Asam with the Brahmaputra 

 river — the Bhoteah and Thibet mountains, is most grand, extensive, and 

 diversified, and I imagine, can be equalled by few in the world. — The 

 Kdsia monuments are numerous, and of large size, about Nankloiv. The 

 circular and square stones, supported by stones placed on end, are 

 extremely similar to the " Cromlechs" found in Cornwall and Wales — ■ 

 doubtless those ancient monuments were appropriated to the same 



