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COMMENCES THE ASCENT. 



Leptospartion is very common up to 1,000 feet, Pandanus 3-500 

 feet, but soon ceases ; the higher precipices abound with an elegant 

 palm tree, habitu Cocos. 



Fleshy urticese and Aroideum become common at 300 feet, along 

 the shaded watery banks, and continue so long as shade and humi- 

 dity are found. Equisetum commences at 300 feet, Arundo, Saurauja, 

 Pentaptera, which last ascends to 1,000 feet, as does Dillenia speciosa, 

 Castaneae feorox commences at 500 feet. Between this and the 

 Choky, Polypodium, Wallichianum arboreum, Davallia grandis, 

 Oxyspora, Musci, Goodyera, and Composita arborea are found. 



At the Choky, the elevation of which is 965 feet, CEsculus begins. 

 Wallichia,* GEschynanthus, Urtica gigas,* Derngia,* Govania,* 

 Anthistira arundinacea, Alstonea, Angiopteris, are found. Grislea 

 is found as high as 1,000 feet. Ficus obliquissima is found at 300 

 feet, and Ficus altera species as high as 700 feet. 



At 1,200 feet Rubi sp., Panax, Cordia, are found, and on the steep 

 ascent, Hastingsia,* Gordonia, Eurya, Corisanthera, Grifnthia. 



At one place the jack fruits, Ficus elastica, Compositi arborea, 

 Panax altera species. 



Dewangeri occupies a ridge 200 feet above our halting place, the 

 elevation of which is 2,031 feet. The view to the north is confined 

 to a ravine of 1,500 feet deep, at the bottom of which runs a consi- 

 derable mountain torrent : to the SW. plains are visible, to the east 

 and west the view is hilly. 



The village itself is a poor one, containing perhaps sixty houses, 

 but these are divided into three or four groups ; the houses, with the 

 exception of three or four stone and lime ones, are of the usual build, 

 viz. of bamboo, and raised on muchauns. Filth and dirt abound every 

 where, and the places immediately contiguous to the huts are furnished 

 plentifully with various ordures. 



Along the ridge three or four temples occur, these are of the Boo- 

 dhistical form : they are composed entirely of slate, are white- washed ; 

 none are of any size, and the workmanship is rude in the extreme ; on 

 each face of the square basement, slabs of slate with inscriptions are 

 visible, and in one instance many of these are ranged along a longish 

 wall. The Pagodas are surrounded with long banners, with inscrip- 

 tions fastened longitudinally to bamboos. On the west side of this 

 the view is remarkably pretty, embracing all the temples, part of the 

 village, and the Rajah's house. The hills adjoining being considerably 

 diversified and remarkable, and for India over picturesquely wooded. 



