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October 8th.—­Visited the fir wood, which is about three miles to the eastward; the road runs over the same downey ground.  The first plant that appears is a Boreal Euphorbia, allied to that previously mentioned.  A Sanguisorba of large stature occurs in low wet places.  Epilobum not uncommon.  The Pines appear first straggling, and they only form a wood in one place, and even there not of much extent; none are of any size.  Musci Lichens and fungi abound in the wood, as also Circaea and Herminium?

Osbeckia Nepalensis, Hedychia 2, a small Goodyera, Tricyrtis Hedera, Polygonum, Polypodium, Gaultheria, Viburnum, Thibaudiacea fructibus gratis, subacidis.  Eurya, Valeriana, Quercus, may likewise be found.  Salix occurs on the skirts in low places.  The hills around are clothed with grasses, among which is a large Airoidea; in the low valleys between these, intersected with small water-courses, three species of Juncus, a curious Umbellifera fistulosa, and Mentha verticillata, occur.  Another Hypericum is likewise found in lately cleared places.

Some cultivation occurs about the place on the slopes of hills, chiefly of a Digitaria, sown broadcast, and tied up in bundles when nearly ripe; together with Glycine tuberosa, and Coix Lacryme.

To the eastward the hills become more rocky, affording little vegetation, the chief plant is an Othonnoidea; another Herminioidea, and a Habenariod, both out of flower, may be found, the former on hills, the latter in low places; a tall Campanula was among the new plants, and an Umbellifera with curious foliage.

The height of this ridge is 5,768 feet, the temperature being 74 degrees, and water boiling at 201.75 degrees.

Took the elevation of Moflong bungalow.  Temperature of the air 65 degrees; water boiled at 202.25 degrees; this gives 5,410 feet.

There are several high rounded hills about this place, (one to the south of the Boga Panee,) the generality of which are more elevated than those on the northern side; the most conspicuous is the hill near Moleem, the north face of which is wooded, and which is at least 1,000 feet above Moflong.

8 P.M.  Temperature 58.5 degrees. 5 P.M. 65 degrees.

October 9th.—­Rain as usual in the morning.  Thermometer at 7 A.M., 58.5 degrees.

October 10th.—­A fine bracing cold morning, with the thermometer at 53.5 degrees. 7 A.M. left for Myrung.  The march to Syung is uninteresting, passing over precisely the same country as that about Moflong, with vegetation much the same.  A tall Carduaceous tree with pink flowers was found in the swampy bottoms of the valleys.  About Syung, a seneciois tree foliis angustissimus.  It is about this place that the sides of the ravines become clothed with forest, and from this northward, Pines increase in abundance.  Anthistiria speculis villosissimis continues here and there; a good deal