Volume 1

Himalayan journals, or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains, &c / by Joseph Dalton Hooker.

  • Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1854
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Himalayan journals, or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains, &c / by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    130/468 (page 88)
    S8 ■•>1* 1 • ... be given, turn out a first rate fowling-piece. Tlic in- liabitants are rejiorted to be sad drunkards, and tlie abundance of toddy-palms was quite remarkable. The latter, (here the Fhoinix sylvestris,) I never saw wild, but it is considered to be so in N.W. India; it is still a doubtful ^ ])oint whether it is the same as the African species. In the ^ morning of the following day I went to the hot springs of j| IIONGHYE ON THE GANGES, WITH THE CURKUCKPOKE HILLS IN THE DISTANCE. The hills are hornstone and quartz, stratified and dipping southerly with a very high angle; they are very barren,^ and evidently identical with those on the south bank of the Soane; skirting, in both cases, the granite and gneiss range of Paras-nath. The alluvium on the banks of the Ganges is obviously an aqueous deposit subsequent to the elevation of. these hills, and is perfectly plane up to their