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2 but ten miles distant, were covered with forests of
3 pine that commenced about one thousand feet below
4 the limit of the snow."
5 Mr. Elphinstone, in returning from Pesliawur to
6 India through the Punjab, says, 4'The whole of our
7 journey across the tract between the Indus and Hy-
8 daspes (the Jhilum), was about 160 miles; for which
9 space the country is among the strongest I have ever
10 seen." p. 78. So Burnes, travelling in the opposite
11 direction, says, ' ' From Rotas we entered into a moun-
12 tainous and rugged country of great strength." Here,
13 therefore, with a change of physical features, there
14 will be necessarily a change of climate, and with it a
15 change of vegetation. Dr. Falconer writes that the
16 Flora begins to change at Rawil Pindee, (and Burnes
17 that there the Dandelion had become a common weed,)
18 which is elevated and continues so, to the plain of
19 Chuch, along the banks of the Attock. The country
20 round Rawil Pindee is open, scattered with single hills
21 and tolerably cultivated, and here Dr. Falconer first
22 met with the famous Zuetoon or wild Olive, an unde-
23 termined species of Olea. Mr. Elphinstone first saw it
24 between Carabagh and Cohaut. Further on at Hussun
25 Abdaul, Dr. Falconer found Himalayan Rubi and a
26 white-flowered Kashmir Dianthus, and there Mr. El-
27 phinstone for the last time, in a garden which resem-
28 bled and almost equalled that of Cohaut, saw the Plane-
29 tree (Platanus orientalis), which forms the favourite
30 ornament of all the gardens of the West. Burnes