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GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN.
Treks.
Plants, Ben-
GALESE.)
tvveen Bootan and the Lama"s country, or Great Tbibet. From
tbis limit, to the great river Burrampooter, is in many places
a hundred and fifty miles in extent. The river Teeßa rifes
not far from the former, and haftens fouth through Bootan
and Bengal, tili it is loft near Dacca in Bengal.
Tms conntry rifes into mountains of prodigious height.
The fummits eternally covered with fnow, the fides with
forefts of ftately trees of various kinds; fome, fuch as pines,
afpens, birch, cyprefs and yew, holly and eider; afh is un-
- common, oaks have not yet been difcovered in Bootan; firs,
and others known in Europe, others again peculiar to the country
and climate. Many of thefe forefts are ufelefs to mankind,
being placed amidft rocks inacceffible. At their bafe, the val-
lies and fides are cultivated, and are produktive of wheat,
barley, and even rice. In the depth of the vallies rufh num-
bers of furious törrents, which, increafing in their courfe,
and at length gaining the plains, are loft in the rivers of
Bengal.
The objects which Mr. Saunders had in view in his travels,
was a knowledge of the vegetable and mineral kingdom ; we
may expect from his fkill ample knowlege of both. At Bux-
aduar, on the north fide of the mountains which bound the
fouth of the Deeb Rajafrs country, in Lat. 26° 58 , Mr. Saun-
ders teils us, that many of the plants of Bengal there require
culture; yet many of the plants of the torrid zone grow there
in the wild jungles ; for example, a fpecies of plantain (Mufa)
with a broad leaf, ufeful for thatching; the Bengal kind will
•not thrive here. In the jungle near Murißong, twenty miles
farther
GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN.
Treks.
Plants, Ben-
GALESE.)
tvveen Bootan and the Lama"s country, or Great Tbibet. From
tbis limit, to the great river Burrampooter, is in many places
a hundred and fifty miles in extent. The river Teeßa rifes
not far from the former, and haftens fouth through Bootan
and Bengal, tili it is loft near Dacca in Bengal.
Tms conntry rifes into mountains of prodigious height.
The fummits eternally covered with fnow, the fides with
forefts of ftately trees of various kinds; fome, fuch as pines,
afpens, birch, cyprefs and yew, holly and eider; afh is un-
- common, oaks have not yet been difcovered in Bootan; firs,
and others known in Europe, others again peculiar to the country
and climate. Many of thefe forefts are ufelefs to mankind,
being placed amidft rocks inacceffible. At their bafe, the val-
lies and fides are cultivated, and are produktive of wheat,
barley, and even rice. In the depth of the vallies rufh num-
bers of furious törrents, which, increafing in their courfe,
and at length gaining the plains, are loft in the rivers of
Bengal.
The objects which Mr. Saunders had in view in his travels,
was a knowledge of the vegetable and mineral kingdom ; we
may expect from his fkill ample knowlege of both. At Bux-
aduar, on the north fide of the mountains which bound the
fouth of the Deeb Rajafrs country, in Lat. 26° 58 , Mr. Saun-
ders teils us, that many of the plants of Bengal there require
culture; yet many of the plants of the torrid zone grow there
in the wild jungles ; for example, a fpecies of plantain (Mufa)
with a broad leaf, ufeful for thatching; the Bengal kind will
•not thrive here. In the jungle near Murißong, twenty miles
farther