An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

:404 TIBET.with iron, and nearly of thesame temperature with the atmosphereSaw a few ill-thrivingwillows planted near the habitations, which arethe only trees to be met with.September 20j 21, and 22. Jioad to Tissoolumboo.* The remainingpart of our journey was over a more fertile soil, enjoying a milderclimate. Some very good fields of wheat, barley, and pease ; manypleasant villages, and distant houses ; less sand, and more rock ;partslaty, and much of it a very good sort of flint. The soil in the valley,a light-coloured clay and sand : they were everywhere employed incutting down their crop. What a happy climate ! the sky was sereneand clear, without a cloud ; and so confident were they of the continuanceof this weather, that their crop was thrown together in aconvenient part of the field, without any cover, to remain till theycould find time to thrash itout.Before we reached Tissoolumboo, we found some elms and ashtrees.The hills in Thibet have, from their general appearance, strongmarks of containing those fossils, that are inimical to vegetation;suchare most of the ores of the metal and pyritical matter.The country properly explored, promises better than any I haveseen, to gratify the curiosity of a philosopher, and to re'ward thelabours of a mineralist. Accident, more than a spirit of eiterprisearid enquiry, has already discovered the presence of many valuableores and minerals in Thibet. The first in this list is, deservedy, goldthey find it in large quantities, and frequently very pure. Inthe form* Teshoo Loomboo.