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All the views in the pass are very picturesque, though wanting in good foliage, such as Ficus would afford, of which I did not see one tree. The banyan and peepul always appear to be planted, as do the tamarind and mango. Dunwah, at the foot of the pass, is 620 feet above the sea, and nearly 1000 below the mean level of the highland I had been traversing.
Chorparun, at the top of the Dunwah pass, is situated on an extended barren flat, 1320 feet above the sea, and from it the descent from the table-land to the level of the Soane valley, a little above that of the Ganges at Patna, is very sudden. The road is carried zizgag down a rugged hill of gneiss, with a descent of nearly 1000 feet in six miles, of which 600 are exceedingly steep.
In the old dark stables I observed the soil to be covered with a copious evanescent efflorescence of nitrate of lime, like soap-suds scattered about. I made Rotas Palace 1490 feet above the sea, so that this table-land is here only fifty feet higher than that I had crossed on the grand trunk road, before descending at the Dunwah pass.
Dew had formed every night since leaving Dunwah, the grass being here cooled 12 degrees below the air. On the 19th of February we marched up the Soane to Tura, passing some low hills of limestone, between the cliffs of the Kymore and the river.
A little beyond the coal fields, the table-land reaches an average height of 1130 feet, which is continued for upwards of 100 miles, to the Dunwah pass. Here the descent is sudden to plains, which, continuous with those of the Ganges, run up the Soane till beyond Rotasghur.
Doomree Vegetation of table-land Lieutenant Beadle Birds Hot springs of Soorujkoond Plants near them Shells in them Cholera-tree Olibanum Palms, form of Dunwah Pass Trees, native and planted Wild peacock Poppy fields Geography and geology of Behar and Central India Toddy-palm Ground, temperature of Barroon Temperature of plants Lizard Cross the Soane Sand, ripple marks on Kymore hills Ground, temperature of Limestone Rotas fort and palace Nitrate of lime Change of climate Lime stalagmites, enclosing leaves Fall of Soane Spiders, etc.
Money, the magistrate of Mirzapore, kindly sent a mounted messenger to meet me here, who had vast trouble in getting bearers for my palkee. In it I proceeded the next day to Mirzapore, descending a steep ghat of the Bind hills by an excellent road, to the level plains of the Ganges. Unlike the Dunwah pass, this is wholly barren.
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