Epiphytous or at least Epirupous Scitaminia.  Hedychium is found on rocks on this slope, which would give an elevation of about 5,500 feet.

On the sunny sides of hills about Simla, Dicerma is found, this is one of the most tropical forms.

No Epiphytous Orchidea are seen.  And of birds Enicurus, the redstart of torrents, and Myophonus were observed.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Heights and Latitudes of the Stations visited in Affghanistan. {517}

“The subjoined Table contains the latitudes and the altitudes of the principal stations passed through by the late Dr. Griffith during the Cabul campaign in 1838-40, from his original observations.  The altitudes for the latitudes were taken with the sextant and the artificial horizon, and the results throughout are so nearly coincident, that it may be relied on the latitudes herein given are correct to within half a minute in space.

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Latitudes, and Elevations above the Sea, of the various localities visited in Affghanistan.

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NOTES.

{0a} Major Thomson, C. B., Engineers, from whom as well as all the officers of the same corps, Mr. Griffith experienced much kindness in Affghanistan.

{0b} Racoma nobilis, Calcutta Journ.  Nat.  Hist.  Vol. ii, p.577. t. xv fig. 4.  Subfam.  SCHIZOTHORACINAE.

{0c} Calcutta Journal Natural History, Vol.  II. p577, t, xv. f. 4.

{7} It is also on a northern declivity.

{9} On a hill near the Bungalow are the tombs of Lieuts.  Burlton and Beddinfield, two distinguished officers murdered by the natives in 1829.

{12} Although in former times it must have been of some note, the vicinity is strewed with sculptured stones and columns, of which the modern buildings are constructed.  These remains present the form and proportions of European Architecture, and exhibit considerable taste.

{24} The rank of the chiefs of various nations on the frontiers of Assam depends on the number of skulls of vanquished enemies, which decorate their houses.  The Mishmee trophies, as appears from the author’s account in the Journ.  As.  Soc.  May 1837, consist of the skulls of cattle only.

{25} Trigonocephalus mucrosquamatus, afterwards described in Proc.  Zool.  Soc. 1839, Vid.  Cal.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist. vol. 1, p.77.

{29a} Subsequently described from this specimen in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, March 12, 1839.  Cal.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist. vol 1, p.82.

{29b} Gonorhynchus bimacalutus, G. brachypterus, Perilompus aequipinnatus, and Cobitis phoxocheila, which have been all since described from these specimens in the 19th vol.  As.  Res.  Beng.