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produce. Its climate is cold and bleak in the extreme, from the severe 
effects of which, the inhabitants are obliged to seek refuge in shel¬ 
tered valleys, and hollows, or amidst the warmest aspects of the rocks. 
Yet perhaps Providence, in its impartial distribution of blessings, has 
bestowed on each country a tolerably equal share. The advantages that 
one possesses in fertility, and in the richness of its forests and its fruits, 
are amply counterbalanced in the other by its multitudinous flocks, 
and invaluable mines. As one seems to possess the pabulum of vege¬ 
table, in the other we find a superabundance of animal, fife. The 
variety and quantity of wild-fowl, game, and beasts of prey, flocks, 
droves and herds, in Tibet, are astonishing. In Bootan, except domes¬ 
tic creatures, nothing of the sort is to be seen. I recollect meeting 
with no wild animal except the monkey, in all my travels, and of game, 
I saw only a few pheasants, once near Chuka. 
