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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.