of real practical value, in affording a good and cheap
supply of the best culinary and other vegetables that
the climate can produce, hut as showing to what
departments efforts are best directed. Such gardens
diffuse a taste for the most healthful employments, and
offer an elegant resource for the many unoccupied
hours which the Englishman in India finds upon his
hands. They are also schools of gardening; and a
simple inspection of what has been done at Bhagulpore.
is a valuable lesson to any person about to establish a
private garden.
CHAPTEE IV.
Leave Bhagulpore—Colgong—Himalaya, distant view of—Cosi, mouth of
—Difficult navigation—Sand-storms—Caragola-Ghat—Pumea—Ortolans—
Mahanuddee, transport of pebbles, &c.—Betel-pepper, cultivation
of—Titalya—Siligoree—View of outer Himalaya—Terai—Mechis
—Punkabaree—Foot of mountains—Ascent to Dorjiling—Cicadas—
Leeches—Animals—Kursiong, spring vegetation of—Pacheem—Arrive
at Dorjiling—Dorjiling, origin and settlement of—Grant of land from
Rajah—Dr. Campbell appointed superintendent—Dewan, late and
present—Aggressive conduct of the latter—Increase of the station—
Trade—Titalya fair—Healthy climate for Europeans and children—
Invalids, diseases prejudicial to.
I t o o k as it were a new departure, on Saturday,
April the 8th, my dawk being laid on that day from
Caragola-Ghat, about thirty miles down the river, for
the foot of the Himalaya range and Dorjiling.
Passing the pretty villa-like houses of the English
residents, the river-banks re-assumed their wonted
features: the hills receded from the shore; and steep
clay cliffs, twenty to fifty feet high, on one side,
opposed long sandy shelves on the other.
At Colgong, conical hills appear, and two remarkable
sister-rocks start out of the river, the same in structure
with those of Sultangunj. A boisterous current
swirls round them, strong even at this season, and
very dangerous in the rains, when the swollen river is