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shrub ; Thymelaeus frutex occurs at 6,500 feet. The prevailing rock 

 is clay slate. 



\6th. — Marched to Dund-i-Golai, distance fifteen miles, we first 

 descended gradually to the plain, and then traversed this until we 

 skirted some low hills, about one and a half mile, from which a pool 

 of water was situated, where we halted, and which was fed by a small 

 cut coming from some distance. The road was very good throughout, 

 the water- cuts although not unfrequent, being either shallow or skirting 

 the left of the road. The vegetation continued the same as about 

 Chokey, until the plains were reached, but the prickly shrub, habitu 

 Berberidioides, became more common in the water-cuts below than I 

 had seen it before, while Santonica, Centaurea spinosa, and the plants 

 of Chokey, disappeared as we reached the plain, except some few her- 

 baceous forms, which continued throughout. I was much indisposed 

 during this march, and for the time we halted at Dund-i-Golai, a period 

 of four days, was unable to go out, but Capt. Sanders and my people 

 brought me many novelties, which 1 have not yet noted down. The 

 chief vegetation of the plain is Salsola tertia, the surface is level and 

 firm, clothed with scattered Salsola and a few stunted herbaceous 

 plants, among which a yellow Centaureoid, a Crucifera siliquis juni- 

 oribus clavati 4-gonis, were the most common, there was also a curi- 

 ous Thiscoid looking plant. A considerable change commenced 

 about the low hills, a Thymelseus shrub, some curious grasses, an 

 Erodium, a Santonica, occupying the places of the former shrubs, and 

 Dipsacus or Scabiosa becoming very common. The height of this place 

 is about 4,040 feet, the climate most variable. Fahr. thermometer 48° 

 to 105° in single roofed tents. No cultivation seen, a pool of water 

 is situated near the hill, and a little is reported as situated half-way 

 between this place and Chokey, this however I did not see. The 

 country is much parched up, and bears every appearance of always 

 having been so ; no remains of tanks, villages, etc. visible. Painted 

 partridges were seen ; and the eggs of a large bird like a plover ? 

 The wind inclining to be hot, but it is cool up to 1\ or 8 a. m. 



Alaudo cristata ? and an Alauda with the form of Sylvia. 



Sunday, 21s*. — Proceeded to Killa Pootoollah, a distance of ten 

 miles. The road was good over an open, dry, level country, but inter- 

 sected with small cuts : some cultivation was passed, but no villages. 

 Some little improvement was observed close to the Garrah hills, 

 which are of the usual description, and of no great height : a curious 

 slip of the strata exhibited itself, in which the upper strata are cut away 



