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on their arrows. Fortunately for them, it has not all the bad effects 
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they dread from it. I had an opportunity of seeing several who were 
wounded with these arrows, and they all did well, though under the 
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greatest apprehension. The cleaning and enlarging some of the wounds, 
was the most that I found necessary to be done. The paste is pun¬ 
gent and acrid, will increase inflammation, and may make a bad or 
neglected wound, mortal; but it certainly does not possess any spe¬ 
cific quality as a poison. 
The hr, so common in this country, is perhaps the only tree they 
could convert to a useful and profitable purpose. What I have seen 
would not, from their situation, be employed as timber. The largest 
I have yet met with, were near Wandipore; they measured from eight 
to ten feet in circumference, were tall and straight. Such near the Bur- 
rampooter, or any navigable river, might certainly be transported to 
an advantageous market. I am convinced that any quantity of tar, 
pitch, turpentine, and resin, might be made in this country, much to 
the emolument of the natives. Firs, which from their size and situation 
are unfit for timber, would answer the purpose equally well. The pro¬ 
cess for procuring tar and turpentine is simple, and does not require 
the construction of expensive works. This great object has been so 
little attended to, that they are supplied from Bengal, with what they 
want of these articles. 
The country about Tassesudon contains a great variety of soil, and 
much rock of many different forms; but still is an unpromising field 
for a mineralist. I have not found in Boutan, a fossil that had the least 
appearance of containing any other metal than iron, and a small portion 
