GRAM OF THE GLACIAL TERRACES AT THE FORK OF THE
YANGMA VALLEY
SKULLS OF OVIS AMMON
KANGLACHEM PASS
ANCIENT m o r a in e s i n t h e k a m b a c h e n v a l l e y
PEMIONGOHI GOOMPA AND CHAITS
SIKK™ ^ MAS WITH PKAYING o^ n d e r a n d d or. ; t h e
l a t e r a l f ig u r e s a r e m o n k s o r gylongs
d o -m a n i s to n e ,
im p l e m e n t s u s e d i n b o o d h is t t em p l e s
GROUP OF CHAITS AT TASSIDING .
d o o rw a y
SOUTHERN TEMPLE .
MIDDLE TEMPLE
ALTAR AND IMAGES
PLAN OF THE SOUTH TEMPLE
t e m p l e a n d WEEPING CYPRESS
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k in c h in ju n g a a n d PUNDIM FROM MON LEPCHA . . . 3 2 3
MAITYRA, TH E SIXTH OR COMING BOODDH . . 3 3 4
ALTAR AND SONG-BOOM AT YOKSUN . . . . . 3 3 9
d h u r m a r a ja h ’s s e a l .
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
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Sunderbunds vegetation—Calcutta Botanic Garden—Leave for Burd-
wan—Rajah’s gardens and menagerie—Coal-beds, geology, and
plants of—Lae insect and plant—Ranker—Cowage—Effloresced
soda on soil—Glass, manufacture of—Atmospheric vapours—
Temperature, &c.—Mahowa oil and spirits—Maddaobund—Jains
—Ascent of Parasnath—Vegetation of that mountain . . 1
CHAPTER IX.
Doomree—Vegetation of table-land—Birds—Lieutenant Beadle—
Hot springs of Soorujkoond—Plants near them—Cholera-tree—
Olibanum—Palms, form of—Dunwah Pass—Trees, native and
planted—Wild peacock—Poppy fields—Geography and Geology
of Behar and Central India—Toddy-palm—Baroon—Lizard—
Aurora Borealis—Cross the Soane—Sand, ripple-marks on—
Kymore hills—Rotas fort and palace—Nitrate of lime—Change
of climate—Lime stalagmites, enclosing leaves—Spiders, &c.—
Scenery and natural history of upper Soane valley—Bhel fruit
—Dust-storm — Alligator — Catechu — Cochlospermum— Leaf-
bellows—Scorpions—Tortoises —Florican— Limestone spheres—
Coles—Tiger-hunt—Robbery . . . . . . . 22
CHAPTER III.
Ek-powa Ghat — Sandstones—Shabgunj — Gum-arabic— Mango—
Fair—Rujubbund—Storm—False sunset and sunrise—Bind hills