Himalayan Journals (V. 1) Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Ek-powa Gbat?Sandstones?Shahgunj?Table-land, elevation, andc.?Gum-arabic ?Mango?Fair?Aquatic plants?Rujubbund?Storm?False -unset and sunrise?Bind hills?Mirzapore?Manufactures, imports, andc.?Climate of? Thuggee ? Chunar ? Benares ? Mosque ? Observatory ? Sar-uath ? Ghazeepore?Rose-gardens?Manufactory of Attar?Lord Comwallis' tomb ?Ganges, scenery and natural history of?Pelicans?Vegetation?Insects? Dinapore?Patna?Opium godowus and manufacture?Mudar, white and purple?Monghyr islets?Hot Springs of Setakooud?Alluvium of Ganges? Rocks of Sultun-gunj?Bhangulpore?Temples of Mt. Manden?Coles and native tribes?Bhangulpore rangers?Horticultural gardens. On the 3rd of March I bade farewell to Mr. Williams and his kind party, and rode over a plain to the village of Markunda, at the foot of the Ghat. There the country becomes very rocky and wooded, and a stream is crossed, which runs over a flat bed of limestone, cracked into the appearance of a tesselated pavement. For many miles there is no pass over the Kymore range, except this, significantly called " Ek-powa-Ghat" (one-foot Ghat). It is evidently a fault, or shifting of the rocks, producing so broken a cliff as to admit of a path winding over the shattered crags. On either side, the precipices are extremely steep, of horizontally stratified rocks, continued in an unbroken line, and the views across the plain and Soane valley, over which the sun was now setting, were superb. At the summit we entered on a dead flat plain or tableland, with no hills, except along the brim of the broad valley we had left, where are some curious broad pyramids,formed of slabs of sandstone arranged in steps. By dark we reached the village of Roump (alt. 1090 feet), beyond the top of the pass. On the next day I proceeded on a small, fast, a...Read More