On my return after packing my collections I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />went to the foot of the hills<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> met my dear friend <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> & we together explored the torrid valleys <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711">Terai</placeName> Botanically & Geologically keeping <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />up a <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Met.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological</expan> </choice> register & tracing the Evidences of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />water terraces & steppes which I now carry from <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the plains up to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. There I found <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kohle">coal</name> (useless) <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& faint traces of the tertiary deposits of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Graphit">Plumbago</name><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Eisen">Iron</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalk">Lime</name> in deposits from springs. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />The proofs of the gradual retirement of the waters <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the foot of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> are beautiful<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> I traced <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />them to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="30" unit="mile">30 miles</measure> distant from the hills.