Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1851

James Pontet of the uncvenanted Civil Service Superintendent of the whole of the hills under the Title of Superintendent of the Thimin-eLKoh " with power to guard the interest of Government by making favorable land settlements with the SonthAls and to collect the rent. [...] Buchanan observes " are no where of sufficient height to reduce the temperature of the air in any considerable degree and the reflection of the sun's rays from their rocks and the shelter from the winds that their forests afford renders the part among the bills hotter than the plains so that the mountaineers when in the open"1851.] Notes upon a Tour through the Rhjmahal Hills. [...] To the natives of the plains the climate of the hills during several months of the year is most fatal ; jungle fever carrying them off in a few hours ; the bad season commences with the westerly winds in March ; the suddenness of the attack is appalling as long tis there is no wind the healthiness of December January and February is prlonged to March but the first high wind arising in March [...] The view of the Mahmigarhi range of sandstone hills to the right of the road is particularly fine the height above the sea of the trignometrical point on the summit of the western peak is about 1 5e1 feet. [...] From the forest at the foot of the hill largquantities of the peear or peeal the delicious little fruit of the Chironjee sapida arc collected by the Sonthals and sold to the buniiihs of the plains.