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JOURNEY TOWARDS ASSAM AND BOOTAN. 



rature 76°, water boiling at 202 J. Wild hog are found round its 

 base.* 



October 14M. — I left for Moleem, the march is long and fatiguing ; 

 the road leaves the Moflong road at about four miles from the village 

 of that name, continuing over similar barren hills, clothed with 

 scanty grass. On reaching Morung firs become common, but they 

 are small. The view of Moleem, from this direction is remarkably 

 pretty ; the country being better wooded, especially with young firs, 

 and the effect being much increased by the quantities of large boul- 

 ders that occur strewn in every direction. The Boga Panee is here 

 a contemptible stream, not knee deep. Moleem is a place of some 

 size on the left bank of the river, occupying the side of a hill of con- 

 siderable height. Thermometer 7 p. m. 58°. 



October 1 5th. — Temp. 7 a. m. 53°, at 3 p. m. 70J°, water boiled 

 at 204°, altitude 4,473 feet, or perhaps rather more. Walked 

 towards Nogandree ; between this and a stream resembling the Boga 

 Panee there is a pretty valley, the eminences generally well- wooded 

 with young firs. Pretty and eligible sheltered sites might here be 

 chosen for a Sanataiium. The vegetation is the same as that of 

 Moflong — Delphinium, Ranunculus, Anemone, Potentilla, Tricyrtis, 

 Codonopsis, Lilium giganteum, Spirseacese, Viola, Pyrus, Galium, 

 Carduus, Viburna. 



The woods are not very frequent, they consist, when not exclu- 

 sively of Pines, chiefly of Oaks and Chesnuts. Underwood almost 

 entirely of Acanthaceae. Rhus Bucki-Amelam is common here, an 

 Oxalis occurs in very shady places with fleshy leaves, it is so large 

 that it is scarcely referrible to O. corniculata. Berberis asiatica is 

 very common. 6 p. m. thermometer 58°, 9 p. m. 50J°. 



October \6th.—7 a. m. 842J°. Ascended the Chillong hill, 

 which is among the highest portion of this range, it is said that 

 from this both the plains of Bengal and of Assam may be seen, not 

 because it overtops all the intermediate ground, but because that 

 happens in some places to be rather low; the termination of the 1st 

 elevation above Churra, is seen to be very abrupt, but nothing can be 

 seen beyond the elevated plateau of this part towards the south. To 



* The Kullung rock is a most striking object from its artificial dome-like ap- 

 pearance. It is composed of granite resting on an elevated plateau of soft friable 

 gneiss. This last in mouldering away, leaves numerous rounded boulder-like 

 masses of granite on the surface, which from their hardness, resist the action of the 

 atmosphere amidst the surrounding decay of the softer rock. 



