meeting with no signs of B. and P., I determined on returning.  I reached the coolies about eight, covered with mud, the path in the wood being very difficult and excessively slippery.  I had nothing but broken crusts to eat; I procured some sherry however, and my bedding being up, I was glad to take shelter for the night under the trees.  Next morning on overtaking P. and B., I found that they had remained all night in the wood without any thing to eat, and without bedding, and that no habitation was near.  We reached the village about 9.5 on the 16th, fatigued and dispirited.  Nothing was at hand, and we had no meal until 5 P.M. except some tea, and an egg or two.

Many of the coolies came up late on the 16th, and some have not yet arrived (17th.) The distance was fifteen miles, to the halting place about twelve.  The amount of ascent about 4,500 feet, and descent 6,100 feet, the road being difficult and very slippery:  snow was heavy throughout, and the elevations between 9 and 12,400 feet; icicles were frequent.  The trees were all covered with frost, and the aspect was wintry in the extreme; luckily there was no wind, and no snow fell.  The summit of the ridge was 12,477 feet high.  No views were obtained throughout the 15th and 16th; the weather being cloudy and very disagreeable.  No bad effects were experienced from the rarefaction of the air; we all suffered of course from colds owing to exposure at night, at an elevation of nearly 9,500 feet; the servants bore it tolerably well.

At Sanah, the altitude of which is 7,983 feet, (Pemb.) I observed Quercus ilecifolia, on it Neckerae, Anhymenium, Senecio scandens, Rhododendron arboreum, majus, Juncus effusus, Swertia, Pendulous lichens, Dipsacus, Artemisia major, Primula Stuartii, Berberis asiatica, Bambusa microphylla, Lycopodium of Surureem, Orthotrichum!

At 8,000 feet, Smilax ruscoideus, Senecio scandens, woods of oak and Rhododendrons, the ground and the trees covered with mosses.  Gnaphalium, Daphne papyrif., Mespilus microphyllus!  Gaultheria nummularioides, Spiraea gillenioides, and S. bella, Hypericum, Gnaphalium lanceolatum, trivenum, Sambucus! but withered, Tetranthera nuda of Bulphai, Abies Brunonis which is probably a Podocarpus.

At 8,300 feet, Tussilaginoides of Churra, Primula Stuartii common on swards with Swertiae, etc. as before, Funaria and Weissia Templetonia common, Sphaeropterus!  Quercus ilecifolia, Abies pendula, Rhododendron arboreum, majus!  Dalibarda, Rubus, Ilex dipyrena!  Rhododendron undulatum!

At 8,400 feet, the road running along, and above a ravine, rocky ground to the right, Eurya acuminata!  Composita penduliflora.  Thibaudia rotundifolia, and in a swampy sward a small dwarfed very narrow-leaved bamboo, Primula Stuartii, Gnaphalium densiflorum, Swertia monocotyledonea, Prunella in the woods, Salix lanata, and Panax rhododendrifolia.

Just above this, 8,500 feet, the first Abies cedroides appeared, soon becoming very common, and extending up to 9,500 feet, its habit is like that of a cedar, and it is a tall handsome tree, Rubia* cordifolia!  Geranium scandens, Baptisioides.