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JUMALPORE AND THE 



September 14th. — Came in sight of distant very elevated land, 

 which we suppose to be the Kassiya Hills. This morning (15th) the 

 Hills are very plain, and bear nearly due north. The country through 

 which we passed yesterday presented no change whatever. Andropo- 

 gon muricatus has now nearly left us ; but the Saccharum reaches to a 

 large size, and is incredibly abundant. The natives use it for thatch- 

 ing their huts. We were visited by a heavy squall in the evening. 



16th. — Strong winds from an easterly direction. About noon we 

 succeeded in reaching a creek, in which we are completely sheltered. 

 During our route here, we were employed in examining a new species 

 of Crotalaria, and one of Mitrasacme ! In pools close to us are 

 Damasonium indicum, Nymphaa carulea, Myriophyllum tetrandrum, 

 Polygonum rivulare, and a species of Villarsia, V. cristata. 



— Left the creek, and arrived at Jumalpore about 2 p.m. ; the 

 cantonment of which occupies the right-hand side of the Burrampoo- 

 ter, along the bank of which the officers' houses are situated ; indeed 

 this is the' only dry line about the place, as immediately inland there 

 are nothing but jheels and rice fields. Jumalpore is about f of a 

 mile from the junction of the Jenai with the Burrampooter or rather 

 from the point of exit of the former river. 



24th. — We left the cantonment about 1 1 a.m., and proceeded 

 down the Burrampooter, which is a very uninteresting river, and ap- 

 pears more like a net- work of water and sand banks ; opposite 

 Jumalpore, the banks are about a mile apart, but the distance 

 between the extreme banks, leaving the island opposite the canton- 

 ment out of the question, is much more. During the dry weather 

 this part of the river is passable, and indeed is in some places 

 nothing but a dry bed of sand, so that people walk across it. During 

 our stay at the above place we met with many interesting and new 

 plants, among which a new species of Villarsia occupied the most 

 prominent place. Cyperacete, Graminea, and aquatic Scrophulari- 

 nece abound. Solanum spirale occurs in abundance, and the trees 

 commence to be clothed with ferns. I observed only one Epiphytica 

 Orchidea, probably an Aerides. 



The banks consist hitherto of nothing but sand, covered with 

 Saccharum spontaneum. Andropogon muricatus is scarcely to be 

 met with. 



26th. — We left Mymensing this morning, and proceeded down the 

 Burrampooter, the banks of which still present for the most part no- 

 thing but a succession of sandy banks covered with Saccharum spon- 



