82 Mr. Saunders's Account of the 
Buxaduar. It is known to mineralifts in that ftate by the 
name of quartz gritftone. The rock which, forms the bafis of 
thefe mountains dips in almoft every direction, and is covered 
with a rich and fertile foil, but in no place level enough to be 
cultivated. Many European plants are met with on the road to 
Murifbong;. many difFerent forts of modes, fern, wild thyme, 
peaches, willow, chickweed, and grades common to the more 
four hern parts of Europe, nettles, thirties, dock, ftrawberry, 
rafberry, and many deftruftive creepers, fome peculiar to 
Europe. 
Murifhong is the firft pleafant and healthy fpot to 
be met with on this fide of Boutan. It lies high, and) 
much of the ground about it is cleared and cultivated ; the 
foil, rich and fertile, produces good crops. The only plant 
now under culture is a fpecies of the Polygonum of Lin- 
k^us, producing a triangular feed, nearly the fize of barley* 
and the common food of the inhabitants. It was now the 
beginning of their harveft; and the ground yields them, as in 
other parts of Boutan, a fecond crop of rice. Here are to be 
found in the Jungles two fpecies of the Laurus of Linnaeus ; 
one known by the name of the baftard cinnamon. The bark 
of the root of this plant, when dried, has very much the tafte 
and flavour of cinnamon ; it is ufed medicinally by the natives. 
The Chenopodium, producing the femen fantonicum, or worm- 
feed, a medicine formerly in great charafter, and ufed in thofe 
difeafes from which it is named, is common here. 
Found in the neighbourhood of this place all the European 
plants we had met with on the road. The afcent from Buxa- 
duar to Murifhong is upon the whole great, with a fenfible 
change in the ftate of the air. 
Road to Chooka, May 25. On the road to Chooka find all 
the Murifliong plants* cinnamon-tree, willow, and one or two 
firs 1 
