I THE INDIA REVIEW 
OF WORKS ON SCIENCE 
AND 
' JOURNAL OF FOREIGN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. 
EMBRACING 
MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, PHYSICS, &c. 
REVIEW. 
Some enquiries in the Province of Kemaon 
relative to Geology and other Branches 
of Natural Science, by Assistant Sur- 
geon John McClelland, Member 
of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 
London, and of the Medical and Physi- 
cal Society, Calcutta, Oct.pp. 384 . — 
Thacker & Co., Calcutta. 
The second chapter of Dr. McClelland’s 
work opens with a general description of the 
district. He introduces his reader to the pass 
of Burmdeo, the capital of Rohilcund, ninety 
miles north, or eight marches from Bareilly ; 
he represents the spot as being in the form of 
an amphitheatre, surrounded by delightful 
mountain scenery. At a narrow outlet emer- 
ges the great northern branch of the ri- 
ver Gogra, watering the plains of Rohilcund 
and Oude, until it joins the Ganges near 
Ghazeepore. 
Three marches further north, our author 
brings us to Lohooghat. The first march 
is over a rugged group of mountains 5,000 
feet above the sea. From the summit the 
view of the Himalaya is intercepted by a still 
higher range. The traveller descends to 
Belket ; the country between Belket and 
Burmdeo is represented as uninhabited. Dr. 
McClelland states, however, that a few huts 
may be found on the elevations, but the valleys 
are uninhabited at least during six months 
in the year. We wish our author had been 
particular in specfiying the months, we sus- 
pect they are the four preceding and the two 
succeeding the termination of the rains. 
Thus it is that the rudest inhabitants of the 
earth are made wise by experience and ob- 
servation. Malaria, during the periods 
which we have alluded to, exists in all its 
virulence and drives the lowlanders to the 
highest elevations. 
Those who are sceptics as to unhealthiness 
from ditches and low marshy spots, let them 
learn a lesson from the examples of these 
mountaineers. Our author next ascends to 
Choura Pany, which is situated on a ridge 
verging along the base of the Himalaya chain : 
from this spot the snowy peaks burst upon the 
view. Dr. McClelland speaks of the scene as 
indescribably magnificent. Mountain scenery 
in all countries exalts the imagination and 
rivets man into profound admiration ; but 
that of the mighty Himalaya is grand beyond 
description. The first time we saw these 
lofty ranges was on the occasion of our 
accompanying the army which invaded Nipal. 
The scene on that occasion can never be 
erased from our recollection ; as we sat upon 
one of these mighty elevations, we could look 
down to an immense depth and see the army 
of many thousands marching up almost a per- 
pendicular height, so rapid are the mountains 
in some places . The lofty pines and green oak 
woods hid the moving body, and then they 
would be seen again in immense numbers on 
perilous ridges, the azure clear Indian sky, 
the brilliant rays of the sun reflected from 
the British bayonet, the well known shout 
of a marching army, and the buz of camp 
followers echoing along the deep dells, awak- 
ened a thousand thoughts and aroused a thou- 
sand feelings, and then onward shone the 
brilliant tops of the snowy height, with which 
our author is now enraptured. 
