The hills here present a straight precipitous wall of horizontally stratified sandstone, very like the rocks at the Cape of Good Hope, with occasionally a shallow valley, and a slope of débris at the base, densely clothed with dry jungle. The cliffs are about 1000 feet high, and the plants similar to those at the foot of Paras-nath, but stunted: I climbed to the top, the latter part by steps or ledges of sandstone. The summit was clothed with long grass, trees of _Diospyros_ and _Terminalia,_ and here and there the _Boswellia._ On the precipitous rocks the curious white-barked _Sterculia fœtida_ “flung its arms abroad,” leafless, and looking as if blasted by lightning. A hole was sunk here again for the thermometers, and, as usual, with great labour; the temperatures obtained were— Air. 4 feet 6 inches, under good shade of trees 9 p.m. 64·5° 77° 11 p.m. 76° 5.30 a.m. 58·5° 76° This is a very great rise (of 4°) above any of those previously obtained, and certainly indicates a much higher mean temperature of the locality. I can only suppose it due to the radiation of heat from the long range of sandstone cliff, exposed to the south, which overlooks the flat whereon we were encamped, and which, though four or five miles off, forms a very important feature. The differences of temperature in the shade taken on this and the other side of the river are 2·75° higher on this side. On the 17th we marched to Akbarpore (alt. 400 feet), a village overhung by the rocky precipice of Rotasghur, a spur of the Kymore, standing abruptly forward.