to its summit is difficult to anybody but a Mishmee; it
is, however, by no means impracticable. The path by which it may be
gained, leads from the eastward. At the summit is an insulated, rounded,
rugged mass of rock, on which the faqueers sit. It is however the
descent by the path to the east which is difficult, and people generally
choose another path to the west. This rock is clothed with ferns
epiphytical Orchideae, an Arundo, and a few stunted trees are very common
at its summit. Between it and the hill is another much smaller mass, and
the intervening spaces are occupied by angular masses of rock. These
spaces both lead westward to that corner of the river into which the Deo-
panee falls. Eastward they lead to the margin of the bank.

The north face of the Faqueer's Rock is excavated into a hollow of the
Deo Dowar. It has no resemblance to a Gothic ruin, which form is, I
believe, peculiar to calcareous rocks. It is this rock which, by its
eastern extremity projecting into the water, forms the reservoirs into
which the Deo-panee falls, or rather at this season runs; the place
resembles merely a sort of bay. The water-mark of floods visible on some
of the rocks, is probably eight feet above that of this time of the year.
The reservoir is completed by a projection from the rocks forming the
south bank, but it is almost entirely abstracted from the stream. The
south bank immediately beyond this is extremely precipitous, and very
high. The Faqueer's Rock is three-peaked; two peaks can only be seen
from the Deo-panee, the third is the low one to the west, the middle is
the highest, and is perforated: the eastern represents a sugar-loaf
appearance. Two distinct streams run into the reservoirs, the bed of one
forms the second defile before alluded to: this is very insignificant.
The other occupies the corner of the bay, and can only be seen from a low
station on the sand beneath: it is an attempt at a small water-fall.

_Oct_. _23rd_.--To-day I have been employed in collecting plants. Nearly
due east of the Koond, and at a distance of about 40 yards, the face of
the hill is perpendicular, and in some places overhanging; its extremity
juts out into the stream, which here flows with great violence; the banks
are occupied by masses of rock strewed in every direction, resulting from
a landslip of great size: some of these masses are enormous. The greater
portion of the slip is clothed with herbage and trees, so