At <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><measure quantity="4000" unit="foot">4000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></hi> tropical forms are replaced <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />by temperate <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">ones</supplied>. <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="Rhododendron">Rhododendrons</name></hi> are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not in <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">this</hi> longitude found below <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7000" unit="foot">7000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>; from above <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">of</supplied> which I have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />12 species, one an <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="Epiphyt">epiphyte</name></hi> & <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">sweet <lb />scented</hi> with <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">enormous</hi> white flowers. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Both <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> &<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> of this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="Rhododendron">Rhododendrons</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />descend to <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><measure quantity="5000" unit="foot">50</measure></del> <add place="across"><measure quantity="4500" unit="foot">45</measure></add> </subst>00 <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice> & even lower. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />The rocks are <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Glimmerschiefer">mica schist</name> with<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="9v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="10r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">10.</fw> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granat">Garnets</name> at the outer base of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hills – highly contorted & dislocated <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />bed of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Gneis">Gneiss</name> higher up to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7000" unit="foot">7000</measure> & <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="11000" unit="foot">11000 <lb /><choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. In the valleys I have visited <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> of this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Chloritschiefer">chlorite</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Quarzschiefer">quartz slate</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Quarz">quartz</name> itself. I am inclined to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />think that these rocks all pass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into one another here; but so dense <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a forest clothes all that it is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />difficult to prove this. Though the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valleys are so steep we have hardly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a precipice any where. We have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalkstein"><choice> <abbr>Limest</abbr> <expan>Limestone</expan> </choice></name> depositing springs in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valleys but none <foreign xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="lat">in situ</foreign>: In <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">Bootan</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><unclear reason="covered" cert="medium">N</unclear></del> <add place="across">Ea</add> </subst>st of this<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> wholly of primitive <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalkstein">Limestone</name> are common. I have seen <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />no Volcanic rocks, but picked up <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rolled <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kieselgestein">pebbles</name> in the deep streams of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Flutbasalt">trap</name> or <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Grünstein">green stone</name>. In <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000500 https://www.geonames.org/1262117">Kemaon</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Volcanic rocks are fully developed & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />doubtless too in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepaul</placeName> & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikim</placeName> too <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as well as <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">Bhotan</placeName>.