4th.—­Marched sixteen miles to Mysoor:  direction at first NNW. and latterly west, close to the Brahorck hills.  Water is plentiful in bunds and river, but the country is very very bare, Salicornia robusta uncommon, Plantago canescens, Poa, Cynodon, Ukko is very common, otherwise Kureel is the predominant plant.  A good deal of wheat cultivation, every thing depends on water:  the wheat along watercourses is luxuriant, but where water is less plentiful, stunted:  soil the same, a tenacious sandy clay when wet:  fields very free from weeds.  Reseda very common, but very small, Heliotropium ditto, Crucifera hispida ditto.  Green wheat a maund for a rupee.  The road or rather country, is intersected here and there by ravines.

5th.—­Halted.  The nearest range of hills are six miles off, they have a very peculiar irregular brown appearance.  The higher ones also have a similar appearance; these appear quite precipitous, and have in some parts a curious crenated outline.  The chief vegetation about this place is Kureel, especially along the river and towards the bund, which last is well filled with water. Kureel, Furas, Ukko, very common, Cynodon, Prenanthoid, Poa minima, Joussa, Fagonia, Saccharum, Nerioid.  In the water Scirpus, Cyperaceus, Charae two species, Potomogeton two species, Valisnaria, Typha.  On banks, Plantago cana, a curious Sileneacea, a splendid Orobanche, and a Brassicacea.

The birds continue the same:  there is abundance of Fulica, swarms of waterfowl, herons, plovers, etc.; starlings re-appear.

Some wheat fields well irrigated; most luxuriant Khujoors, radishes.

6th.—­Marched to Nowshera, sixteen miles:  five first miles across a plain scantily furnished with Kureel.  Sturt tells me the country looks quite a desert to the eastward from one of the hills.  Thence we came on the hills, through which and the dividing valleys we proceeded for two miles, thence emerging into a narrow valley in which Nowshera is situated, drained by the river of Mysoor, which is an insignificant running stream.

The hills are very curious, totally bare of vegetation, not more than two or three stunted Chenopodium cymbifolium being seen on or about them.  They do not exceed 300 feet in height; their composition is various; they are much worn by rain, and the outline although generally sharp, is often rounded.  They present great variety, but chiefly are of a soft clayish looking substance, distinctly enough stratified, the uppermost strata being indurated and often quite smooth, and of a sub-ochreous appearance.  The outer ridges on each side of the range slope gradually outwards, and the surface in these slopes is smooth.  Inside, or towards the inner part of the range, they are generally precipitous, but beyond the uppermost strata, the exposed face is not indurated, hence this can scarcely