CHAPTER XXVII.

Leave Dorjiling for Calcutta -- Jung Bahadoor -- Dr. Falconer --

Improvements in Botanic Gardens -- Palmetum -- Victoria --

_Amherstia_ -- Orchids spread by seed -- Banyan -- _Cycas_ --

Importation of American plants in ice -- Return to Dorjiling -- Leave

with Dr. Thomson for the Khasia mountains -- Mahanuddy river --

Vegetation of banks -- Maldah -- Alligators -- Rampore-Bauleah --

Climate of Ganges -- Pubna -- Jummul river -- Altered course of

Burrampooter and Megna -- Dacca -- Conch shells -- Saws -- Cotton

muslins -- Fruit -- Vegetation -- Elevation -- Rose of Bengal --

Burrampooter -- Delta of Soormah river -- Jheels -- Soil --

Vegetation -- Navigation -- Mosquitos -- Atmospheric pressure --

Effects of geological changes -- Imbedding of plants -- Teelas or

islets -- Chattuc -- Salubrious climate -- Rains -- Canoes -- Pundua

-- Mr. Harry Inglis -- Terrya Ghat -- Ascent to Churra -- Scenery and

vegetation at foot of mountains -- Cascades.

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