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cypresses, planes and mulberry trees in the gardens : Cannabis, also 

 one patch of cotton cultivation was passed. 



No descent, but rather small ascent on the whole, say 200 feet, 

 the ascent from the principal nullah crossed being equal, though 

 much shorter than the descent to it. 



Soorkhab ■ . Gundamuek. 



15th. — We halted : many rivulets descend near us from the Sofaid- 

 Koh ; and the water in these is beautifully clear ; many villages and 

 mills with several beautiful spots occur, well shaded with trees, 

 poplars, mulberries, and figs. The objects of cultivation are millet, 

 Indian-corn, rice, and wheat ; this last just sprung up : many bedanah 

 pomegranates, but none I think of superior quality. 



All the low hills here, and indeed between us and the boundary 

 ranges of the valley, are of sandstone, generally very slightly held 

 together, here and there more firm, and distinctly stratified towards 

 the upper surface. The surface consists of conglomerate, formed of 

 boulders imbedded in the same kind of sandstone as that below ; 

 often very friable, occasionally it is as hard as flint. In the sand- 

 stone below, a few stones occur here and there ; but I saw no fos- 

 sils. The upper surface of these hills is remarkably stony, all the 

 stones being more or less rounded. 



Several new plants were found in these ravines, a Lythrum, a very 

 aromatic species of Compositse, Samolus in some of the swamps with 

 Typha, which swarms in every ravine and ravinelet, Rubus, Clematis, 

 Bergia, Ammannia, Lythraria, Chara, Xanthium. 



The plants of tropical forms are, Celosia of Digera ! Polanisia, An- 

 dropogons, two or three. 



The tropical cultivation consists of cotton, the usual annual sort ; 

 Indian-corn, Pennisetum, and rice. 



The fish are, four kinds of Cyprinidse, including one Oreinus, and 

 one loach. 



Kith. — Proceeded to Futtehabad, eleven and a half miles. The 

 road leaves the valley after crossing a stream with a ruined bridge, 



