A few stunted dates are visible near Gurmab, which is three miles from Kirtah, and towards the deep water there is a ruin of a single house. Rairoo, Nerioid, and Lycium albidum are the most common ground plants.  There is only Rairoo for camels, who do not thrive on harsh grasses, although compelled by hunger to eat them.  Large flocks of Doombah sheep and goats belonging to Khelat men were met with.  Mahaseer in abundance, and very greedy after a red hackle of fish, Macrognathus and Opheocephalus occur also.  Of birds the white vulture, Alauda cristata et alia, with a notched beak, a partridge which I had not previously seen, Motacilla alia.

15th.—­Proceeded to Beebee Nanee, nine and a half miles up the valley in which Gurmab is situated.  The road tolerably level and good; boulders not however common.  The village of Kuttah, is one mile to the right, consisting of one ruined house; near the exit from the valley a burial ground occurs, having flags, or banners, pointing out the graves, which are covered with heaps of stones.  The exit from the valley is by a narrow pass through a low range of angular limestone, thence up another narrow shingly valley or narrowish gorge, and over a small stream of water of ordinary temperature, where we encamped:  in the second valley two spots were observed covered with graves.  Immense flocks of birds were seen on the range to the west of the valley.  In the first valley Paederia involucrata and Salsola prima, are the most common plants.  On the limestone hills, Convolvulus spinosus, Frankeniacea, Plantago villosa, and a curious Composita, subacaulis, involucro foliaceo, of which the single specimen has been lost, a few Bheirs.

Encamped in a small valley or pass leading to Khelat, a marked one only a few hundred yards wide.  To the west, the hills continue very barren.  Gurmab—­this takes its name from the warmth of the water, which apparently rises in several sedgy spots; the united waters form a small stream abounding with Mahaseer, Barbus, etc. and falling into another stream, again meets the main river, which runs off to the eastward from the place where it is crossed towards Gurmab.  There is no sign of bubbling in the springs, although the water commences to run visibly from within a few yards.  The temperature of one did not vary from 76 degrees, which must be about the mean temperature of the place, but the temperature of a deep body of water after the confluence of several springs was 82 degrees, so that some of them must hence be of considerable temperature:  the highest examined was 81 degrees.

Of three springs examined—­the first of these had a temperature of 82 degrees Fahr.—­the second of 77 degrees, these unite to form the streamlet that runs towards the east—­the third spring had a temperature of 77 degrees:  this is crossed on entering the valley from the south, it runs under a limestone range, and then bends off to the south-east to unite with the main stream.  Cyprinus fulgens and C. bimaculatus were found in the 82 degrees spring.  From the variation in the temperature of the three, it is obvious that neither represents the mean temperature of the place.