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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1862

1863

About Pagan and to the E. and N. E. of the town the country occupied by these rocks is less intersected by rvines than is the case further south and from the undulating plain which slopes gradually and gently upwards from the river the oucrops of the harder nummulitic beds which underlie the more recent sands project here and there in the form of straight steep ridges of sandstone of [...] The dampness of the climate wa ShOW11 by the presence of several ferns : I counted niiu species in the lower part of the hill alone.* About 2000 feet above the town the path emerged from the jungle upon the grass slopes of the crater. [...] The town of Tdrrnah lies a short distance from the skirt of the mountains bounding Suwat to the south and on the eastern bank of the river of the same name the Suastus of the Greeks from which it is distant about half a mile. [...] The land of the whole of Suwat in fact is like a boat the sides of the boat are the mountains and the bottom part the land as different materially from the mountains. [...] On this account in the summer months when the river is swolleft from the melting of the snows towards its source in the direction of Gilgit the pathway lying along the banks at the foot of the mountain is impracticable from the force of the stream which foams and boils along with great violence.
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Pages
156
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Account of a Visit to Puppa Doung an Extinct Volcano in Upper Burma.—By William T. Blanford F. G. S.
215-226 The Secretaries view
An Account of Upper and Lower Suwat and the Kohistan to the Source of the Suwat River; with an Account of the Tribes Inhabiting those Valleys.—By Captain H. G. Raverty 3rd Regiment Bombay N.I.
227-281 The Secretaries view
Literary Intelligence and Correspondence
282-299 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for May 1862
300-345 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta
xlix-lxxi The Secretaries view

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