No tea is reported to exist here.  B. met with it on his road hither, and shewed me the specimen; there is no difference between this and the Assam specimens in appearance, neither are the leaves at all smaller.  As a new route has been cut out I cannot visit it, but shall wait until I arrive at Meinkhoom.

The Chykwar Mulberry occurs, and to a larger size than I have seen it in Assam.  The Singphos, however, as they have no silkworms, do not make use of it; I have seen some little cultivation on the Tooroon belonging to Bon:  Kanee or Opium formed portion of it.

Thermometer in shade at 2 P.M. 85 degrees.

March 21st.—­7 A.M.  Thermometer 60 degrees.  Yesterday at 2 P.M. 86 degrees! under a decently covered shed.

Boiled water at 209.5 Fahr.  Thermometer 70 degrees, which gives 1399 feet of elevation.

Started at 9, and arrived at Kidding on the Saxsai, a small stream which now falls into the Tooroon.  Distance about four miles and a half from Nempean:  general direction about S.S.E.  The road runs along the Tooroon S., and a little to the W. of S.; it then diverges up the Saxsai, which runs nearly W. and E. Near the mouth of the Saxsai, and about 400 yards above, there is another small stream, the Jinnip Kha.  Both these are on the left bank of the river.  On the opposite side, and about a quarter of a mile, is a village, which like all the rest is stockaded.  Kidding is larger than either Tubone or Nempean; it is on the left bank of the Saxsai.  Rapids are common in the Tooroon, but are not of any severity.

The vegetation remains in a remarkable degree similar to that of Assam.  The Lohit Campanula is very common in the stony beds of either river.

Brahminy Ducks seen at Nempean, and the ravenous Geese of Kamroop Putar.  Fished in the Tooroon, and had excellent sport, killing in the afternoon twenty fishes, average weight half pound; some weighing nearly two pounds.  Three species occurred, and all were taken with flies; the smallest are a good deal like the Boal of Assam.  The large-mouthed, trout-like Cyprinida {74a} occurs, and to a larger size than in the Noa Dihing.  The third is the Chikrum of the Singphos; it is a thick, very powerful fish, a good deal resembling the Roach:  one of two pounds, measures about a foot in length.  Outline ovate lanceolate, head small, mouth with four filaments; eyes very large, fins reddish, first ray of the dorsal large spinous.  It affects deep water, particularly at the edges of the streams running into such places. {74b} It takes a fly greedily even in quite still water; but as it has a small mouth, the smaller the flies the better.  Black hackle is better for it than small grey midges.  On being hooked it rushes off with violence, frequently leaping out of the water.  It is a much more game fish than the Bookhar:  the largest I took with flies; with worms I took only one small one.  With regard to the Bookhar, it is strange if it is not found in the streams running through this valley, as in the Kammaroan it occurs in abundance.