nd Adiantum. Mosses also occur on the dripping rocks.

An Alnus also occurs.

No fish were visible in the streamlet. Peristrophe occurs throughout
from Roopur to Simla.

Epiphytous or at least _Epirupous_ Scitaminia. Hedychium is found on
rocks on this slope, which would give an elevation of about 5,500 feet.

On the sunny sides of hills about Simla, Dicerma is found, this is one of
the most tropical forms.

No Epiphytous Orchidea are seen. And of birds Enicurus, the redstart of
torrents, and Myophonus were observed.

CHAPTER XXIV.

_Heights and Latitudes of the Stations visited in_
_Affghanistan_. {517}

"The subjoined Table contains the latitudes and the altitudes of the
principal stations passed through by the late Dr. Griffith during the
Cabul campaign in 1838-40, from his original observations. The altitudes
for the latitudes were taken with the sextant and the artificial horizon,
and the results throughout are so nearly coincident, that it may be
relied on the latitudes herein given are correct to within half a minute
in space.

[Formula for Latitude/Elevation: m517.jpg]

_Latitudes_, _and Elevations above the Sea_, _of the various_
_localities visited in Affghanistan_.

[Lat/El. 1: tle1.jpg]

[Lat/El. 2: tle2.jpg]

[Lat/El. 3: tle3.jpg]

NOTES.

{0a} Major Thomson, C. B., Engineers, from whom as well as all the
officers of the same corps, Mr. Griffith experienced much kindness in
Affghanistan.

{0b} _Racoma nobilis_, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. Vol. ii, p.577. t. xv
fig. 4. Subfam. SCHIZOTHORACINAE.

{0c} Calcutta Journal Natural History, Vol. II. p577, t, xv. f. 4.

{7} It is also on a northern declivity.

{9} On a hill near the Bungalow are the tombs of Lieuts. Burlton and
Beddinfield, two distinguished officers murdered by the natives in 1829.

{12} Although in former times it must have been of some note, the
vicinity is strewed with sculptured stones and columns, of which the
modern buildings are constructed. These remains present the form and
proportions of European Architecture, and exhibit considerable taste.

{24} The rank of the chiefs of various nations on the frontiers of Assam
depends on the number of skulls of vanquished enemies, which decorate
their houses. The Mishmee trophies, as appears from the author's account
in the Journ. As. Soc. May 1837, consist of the skulls of cattle only.

{25} _Trigonocephalus mucrosquamatus_, afterwards described in P