The Faqueer’s Rock itself is a loose mass of rugged outline, about 50 feet high:  access to its summit is difficult to anybody but a Mishmee; it is, however, by no means impracticable.  The path by which it may be gained, leads from the eastward.  At the summit is an insulated, rounded, rugged mass of rock, on which the faqueers sit.  It is however the descent by the path to the east which is difficult, and people generally choose another path to the west.  This rock is clothed with ferns epiphytical Orchideae, an Arundo, and a few stunted trees are very common at its summit.  Between it and the hill is another much smaller mass, and the intervening spaces are occupied by angular masses of rock.  These spaces both lead westward to that corner of the river into which the Deo-panee falls.  Eastward they lead to the margin of the bank.

The north face of the Faqueer’s Rock is excavated into a hollow of the Deo Dowar.  It has no resemblance to a Gothic ruin, which form is, I believe, peculiar to calcareous rocks.  It is this rock which, by its eastern extremity projecting into the water, forms the reservoirs into which the Deo-panee falls, or rather at this season runs; the place resembles merely a sort of bay.  The water-mark of floods visible on some of the rocks, is probably eight feet above that of this time of the year.  The reservoir is completed by a projection from the rocks forming the south bank, but it is almost entirely abstracted from the stream.  The south bank immediately beyond this is extremely precipitous, and very high.  The Faqueer’s Rock is three-peaked; two peaks can only be seen from the Deo-panee, the third is the low one to the west, the middle is the highest, and is perforated:  the eastern represents a sugar-loaf appearance.  Two distinct streams run into the reservoirs, the bed of one forms the second defile before alluded to:  this is very insignificant.  The other occupies the corner of the bay, and can only be seen from a low station on the sand beneath:  it is an attempt at a small water-fall.

Oct. 23rd.—­To-day I have been employed in collecting plants.  Nearly due east of the Koond, and at a distance of about 40 yards, the face of the hill is perpendicular, and in some places overhanging; its extremity juts out into the stream, which here flows with great violence; the banks are occupied by masses of rock strewed in every direction, resulting from a landslip of great size:  some of these masses are enormous.  The greater portion of the slip is clothed with herbage and trees, so that it is of some age, or standing; but in one place over the river it is clean, as if fresh formed, and white-looking much like chalk.  This cliff in many parts is a dripping well, particularly in one extremity where a good deal of water falls.  It is clothed with the Eriophorum, which hangs down in long tufts; the moist parts with an Adiantum much like A. C. Veneris, a beautiful Pteris, a Pothos or Arum foliis pulchre