The mountains are covered with masses of rock.  One tree occurs with a Fraxinus? a Thymeleous looking shrub, Cytisus, Caragana.  The herbaceous plants are very numerous, Compositae, Cruciferae, small Leguminosae, Berberideae, Isopyroides, Crocus?  Gentiana, Onosma and other Boragineae, Umbelliferae, Silenaceae, especially small Arenariae; Cupressus commences about 6,500 feet, near the Cypress an Arctium occurred, at least it has the habit of that genus, Onosma, a curious Boraginea calyce sinubus bidentigeris, demum plano! ampliato bilabiato! clauso, quasi hastato lobato, nucibus compressis, 2, Sedums 4, Arenariae, a fine Gentiana, Crocoides, Iris, Ornithogaloides or Trichonema occurred, with many others.  The greatest elevation attained was about 1,200 feet above the camp.  Chikor and the smaller partridge were seen.

25th.—­Marched to Quettah, eight and a half miles up the valley over a delightful road.  The valley is cultivated, and many villages are visible with their orchards, consisting of mulberry trees, cherries, and apricots, surrounded with mud walls; the houses miserable, and all trees out of leaf:  the crops under cultivation are more advanced, but depend on irrigation, some salad-bearing plant occurred cultivated in trenches like asparagus:  the fields are clean, and sometimes well manured.  A Veronica allied to V. agrestis, 2 or 3 Euphorbiaceae, a very well defined Plantago, Hyacinthus, and a pretty Muscari, were among the novelties; Juncus, Chara, Carex, occurred in some marshy spots.  I was most struck with the occurrence of at least two species of Lucerne, or Trefoil:  wells are common, and water abundant.  The climate is delightful, temperature 49 degrees at 9 P.M. in a tent.

26th.—­I ascended towards a snowy range to the ESE. of our camp, crossing a cultivated portion of the valley extending to the gradual slopes so universal between the level portion and the bases of the mountains, and which are always covered with shingle, and occasionally much cut up by watercourses.  Turning a ridge I ascended up a ravine, rather wide and easy at first, but becoming gradually narrow, and at last difficult.  On coming to its head I rambled some distance higher among precipitous rocks, the ground generally covered with loose shingle, giving bad footing.  The rocks too were treacherous, often giving way under the feet.  I was still 1,000 feet from the summit, which is the second range between our camp and the snow but which is not visible from the camp.  From it I saw the camp, and the valley of Pisheen beyond the termination of the Tuckatoo range.  Water boiled at 196 degrees 7’, making the height about 8,300 feet, in my (new) Woollaston instrument at 686; temperature of the air 46 degrees 5’.  Nothing occurred to repay me for the fatigue of the excursion.  Junipers or cypress form the chief arbusculous vegetation, but even these are scanty; they commence at 6,500 feet, and continue to the snow:  Fraxinus occurred about 7,000 feet,