CHAPTER XXIX.

View of Himalaya from the Khasia -- Great masses of snow -- Chumulari

-- Donkia -- Grasses -- Nunklow -- Assam valley and Burrampooter --

Tropical forest -- Bor-panee -- Rhododendrons -- Wild elephants --

Blocks of Syenite -- Return to Churra -- Coal -- August temperature

-- Leave for Chela -- Jasper hill -- Birds -- _Arundina_ -- Habits of

leaf-insects -- Curious village -- Houses -- Canoes -- Boga-panee

river -- Jheels -- Chattuc -- Churra -- Leave for Jyntea hills --

Trading parties -- Dried fish -- Cherries -- Cinnamon -- Fraud --

Pea-violet -- Nonkreem -- Sandstone -- Pines -- Granite boulders --

Iron washing -- Forges -- Tanks -- Siberian _Nymphaea_ -- Barren

country -- Pomrang -- _Podostemon_ -- Patchouli plant -- Mooshye --

Enormous stone slabs -- Pitcher-plant -- Joowye -- Cultivation and

vegetation -- _Hydropeltis_ -- Sulky hostess -- Nurtiung --

_Hamamelis chinensis_ -- Bor-panee river -- Sacred grove and gigantic

stone structures -- Altars -- Pyramids, etc. -- Origin of names --

_Yandaca coerulea_ -- Collections -- November vegetation -- Geology

of Khasia -- Sandstone -- Coal -- Lime -- Gneiss -- Greenstone --

Tidal action -- Strike of rocks -- Comparison with Rajmahal hills and

the Himalaya.

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