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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1854. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. EXCURSION TO TERAL Dispatch collections--Acorua---Heat--. Punkabaiee--Bees--Wgetatiou--Haze-Titalya--Earthquake--Proceed to Nepal frontier--Terai, geology of--Physical features of Himalayan valleys--Elephants, purchase of, &c.--River-beds --Mechi river--Return to Titalya--Leave for Teesta--Climate of plains-- Jeelpigoree--Cooches--Alteration in the appearance of country by fires, &c.-- Grasses--Bamboos--Cottages--Rajah of Cooch Behar--Condition of people-- Hooli festival--Ascend Teesta--Canoes--Cranes--Forest--Baikant-pore -- Kummai--Religion--Plants at foot of mount-iins--Exit of Teesta--Canoe voyage down to Rangamally--English genera of plants--Birds--Beantiful scenery -- Botanizing on elephants--Willow--Siligoree--Cross Terai--Geology --Irou--Lohar-ghur--Coal and sandstone beds--Mechi fisherman--Hailstorm --Ascent to Khersiong--To Dorjiling--Vegetation--Geology--Folded quartzbeds--Spheres of feldspar--Lime deposits. Having arranged the collections (amounting to eighty loads) made during 1848, they were conveyed by coolies to the foot of the hills, where carts were provided to carry them five days'' journey to the Mahanuddy river, which flows into the Ganges, whence they were transported by water to Calcutta. On the 27th of February, I left Dorjiling to join Mr. Hodgson, at Titalya on the plains. The weather was raw, cold, and threatening: snow lay here and there at 7000 feet, and all vegetation was very backward, and wore a wintry garb. The laurels, maples, and deciduous-leaved oaks, hydrangea and cherry, were leafless, but the abundance of chesnuts and evergreen oaks, rhododendrons, Aucuba, Limonia, and other shrubs, kept the forest well clothed. The oaks had borne a very unusual number of acorns during the last season, which were...
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