CHAPTER II.
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 -- Baroon -- 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. -- Scenery and natural history of upper Soane valley -- _Hardwickia binata_ -- Bhel fruit -- Dust-storm -- Alligator -- Catechu -- _Cochlospermum_ -- Leaf-bellows -- Scorpions -- Tortoises -- Florican -- Limestone spheres -- Coles -- Tiger-hunt -- Robbery.