246 JOURNEY TO THE KYMOEE HILLS 
all I can do no-\v is to attempt to collect those relating to the 
larger or more common animals.' 
However, 
As in other parts of the world, so here, almost all the 
animals of the plains will descend ; this is a common observa- 
tion, but it never struck me before coming to India, that in 
this respect height is not analogous to Latitude ; for most of 
the animals and man himself accommodate themselves rather 
to an increase of temperature than a diminution. Thus the 
Englishman, horse, dog, sheep, &c. &c., all thrive in India ; 
but the monkey, man, Bhil, and all the other common 
tropical animals, are incapable of supporting colder climate, 
dependent on latitude. 
I w^ill give you but one botanical fact, and that is re- 
garding the vegetation of heights. You have often asked 
if Mts., especially isolated ones, in the tropical and S. 
lat., had closely allied representations of Asiatic or N. 
temperate forms ; now I have been up but one eminence, 
and that of no more than some 5000 feet, and there I found 
a Barberry in abundance, and one not unlike our English 
and (I may say) one smaller Cape Horn species ; but one 
more fact of a diiferent value — do you remember the allusion 
to Vallis7ieria in your grandfather's ' Bot. Gard.' ? I have 
found what I take to be a second or new species of the genus 
in the waters of the Soane, with the same wonderful habits : 
without books, however, and a limited memory, I rather 
talk at random about new species. ^i 
^'ith regard to my health, it is exactly the same : I am 
still troubled at times with those bothering pains on the left 
side and palpitations, aching in the axilla and occasionally 
down the arm. The motions of the heart are on these 
occasions very irregular, but I have no ringing in the ears, 
shortness of breath, or any symptoms that alarmed me. 
Hot or cold days make no difference, and indeed I had a 
long cessation of all pains for three weeks after my arrival, 
that I thought the hot weather had cured me. Whatever 
it is I am 'iwne the icorse of being here, otherwise I never had 
better health, am thinking of getting fat, and hardly know 
what a headache is. Please do not show this part of my 
letter, as this refers to a subject of which my friends know 
nothing. 
