Identifier: journalsoftravel1184grif (find matches)
Title: Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Griffith, William, 1810-1845 McClelland, John, -1883
Subjects: Plants Plants Plants
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ch dis-torted, the top is limestone, much varied and weathered ; then slate :masses of greenstone occur towards the base. The vegetation is chiefly at the summit. Schsenanthus, Periploca,Dodonsea, an arbuscula nova, Euonymus, Chenopodiacese. Below this,(but the elevation is scarcely sufficient to form any difference,) andalong the water, Euonymus, Adhatoda, Buddlaea cana or Syringia,Rhamnacea, Periplocea, Linaria, Labiatse, 2-3, Pistacea, Roylea, Acan-thoides, Urticea ! habitu, U. penduliflorae, Vitex, Convolvulus spinosusof Bolan, Sempervivum, Stapelioides used as a vegetable, and for feverby Hindoos, Artemisiae, Solanum sp. Along water, Adiantum, Mentha, Epilobium, Verbena officinalis,Solanum nigrum, Jacquinifol. pinnatif. spinosus about cultivation. On slaty rocks which form the bed of the ravine or ghat, Dodonsea,Hyoscyamus, and Cyrthandracea are found. The building consists of a wall near the edge of a ridge, whichterminates some twenty feet from the steep precipice of 300 to 500
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ALI-MUSJID. 425 feet: it is 200 to 300 yards in length, and is terminated at eitherend by two towers, both of which are ruinous, it is built of slabsand rough blocks of limestone, between which are layers of slate,much like the Bactrian pillar, and very superior to modern buildings swhat its use was, it would be difficult to conjecture as it is out ofmusket shot of the ghat, which it only commands by being above it.There is no water on the top, nor is there any well marked pathup to it: curious mortar-like excavations were observed in a massof limestone just below, probably for pounding rice. Up the ravineare remains of terraces formerly used for cultivation, but now mostlydisused. At 700 to 800 feet above the ghat the ravine abounds withthe Ficus of Gundamuck; this and the Adhatoda or Rooss are perhapscultivated : the ravine is pretty well entangled with Ficus and brush-wood. It consists of metamorphosed rocks and excavated limestone ;some mosses occur, and Adiantum abounding. From t

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