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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal June Part I 1840

1840

From the situation of Soongnum between the high passes and the direction of the valley a strong wind generally prevails dttring the greater part of the day and retards in some measure the advance of vegetation whith is here far less vigorous and forward than at the Tartar villages of Hungo Leeo and Chungo the. [...] In the autumn and winter the mines are abandoned on account of the snow and the return of spring invariably discloses the destruction of them by the splitting of the fros4i-bound rocks. [...] The Himalaya has to the north the elevated steppep of Central Asia and to the south the long low plains of Hindustan ; Hinducush on the other hand has to the south the elevated: plains: of Cabul and Koh_i-damun between five and six thousand feet above the level of the sea while to the north stretch away the depressed sunken and swampy flats of Turkistan." Against this long received opinion [...] In the language of Kunawur these temporary residences are termed DOgrées and in that of the Tartars _flexing" ; thus we find " Rezing" and " Chang-vexing" on the road to Spiti to be patches of cultivation and sheepfolds belonging to the inhabitants of the village of Chango." 582 Note on the Map attached to th; Report of the Coal Committee in the 98th Number of the Journal of the Asiatic Soci [...] By the description of this portion of the journey I conceive the mountain to be one of the mime placed by me immediately to the southward of the coal field or a continuation of them to the eastward.
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Pages
74
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Journal of a Trip through Kunawur Hungrung and Spiti Undertaken in the Year 1838 under the Patronage of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for the Purpose of Determining the Geological Formation of those Districts.—By Thomas Hutton Lieut. 37th Regt. N.I. Assistant Surveyor to the Agra Division
555-581 The Secretary view
Note on the Map Attached to the Report of the Coal Committee in the 98th Number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society.—By Capt. Macleod M.N.I. Late in Charge of Ava Residency
582-594 The Secretary view
Note on the Limboos and Other Hill-Tribes Hitherto Undescribed. By A. Campbell Esq. Superintendent of Darjeeling
595-615 The Secretary view
Inscription Found Near Bhabra Three Marches from Jeypore on the Road to Delhi. By Capt. Burt
616-619 The Secretary view
On the Fossil Remains of Camelida of the Sewaliks. By Capt. Cautley Artillery
620-624 The Secretary view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
624-626 The Secretary view
Index
i-i The Secretary view

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