The Forests of Upper India and their Inhabitants
The Forests of Upper India and their Inhabitants
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上印度的森林及其居民
作者：
T. Webber
这本有趣的书的标题有点错误。首先，作者只涉及了上印度森林的一小部分，即库蒙（Kumaon）（访问了西藏）、戈勒克布尔（Gorakhpur）（访问了尼泊尔）、詹西（Jansi）、本德尔昆德（Bundelkund）和中部省份北部地区的森林。其次，他提供的有关居民（无论是人还是动物）的信息远多于森林本身的信息。事实上，有关后者的信息非常粗略而且不是最新的。作者在这方面所说的是大约三十五到四十年前的情况，我们现在拥有的记录比本书中包含的内容要完整得多。这方面的信息也并不总是非常准确。上页。例如，在 38 中，他给出了 Kumaon 山森林的面积为 I 5,000 平方英里，而它们所在的整个地区则给出为 150 英里长和 100 英里宽，也等于 I 5,000 平方英里。在 p。 184 另一方面，Kumaon 调查的森林面积据说达到 1074 平方英里。再次，在 p。 41 中指出，银冷杉生长在海拔 12,000 英尺的北坡，但这实际上是上限，这种树通常在 8000 至 12,000 英尺之间被发现。上页。 194，作者说萨尔是在迈索尔山和泰纳瑟林发现的。这可能在五十年前就被相信了，但人们很快就发现南方的树不是萨尔树，而是另一种龙脑香树。关于喜马拉雅山最重要的树迪奥达尔，我们知之甚少。《上印度的森林及其居民》，托马斯·W·韦伯著。页码。十六+344；有2张地图。 （伦敦：Edward Arnold，1902 年。）价格 12 便士。 6d.网。
THE title of this interesting book is somewhat mis I leading. In the first place, the author deals with only a fraction of the forests of Upper India, namely those of the districts of Kumaon (with a visit to Thibet), Gorakhpur (with a dash into Nepal), Jansi, Bundelkund, and the northern part of the Central Provinces. In the second place, he gives far more information regarding the inhabitants, whether men or animals, than of the forests themselves. Indeed, the information regarding the latter is very sketchy and not up-to-date. What the author does say in this respect refers to a state of things existing some thirty-five to forty years ago, and we have now far more complete accounts than those contained in this volume. Nor is the information in this respect always very accurate. On p. 38, for instance, he gives the area of the Kumaon hill forests as I 5,000 square miles, while the whole district in which they are situated is given as 150 miles long and ioo broad, which also comes to I 5,000 square miles. At p. 184, on the other hand, the area of forests surveyed in Kumaon is said to amount to 1074 square miles. Again, at p. 41, it is stated that the silver fir grows on the northern slopes at an elevation of 12,000 feet, whereas that is practically the upper limit, the tree being usually found between 8000 and 12,000 feet. On p. 194, the author says that Sal is found in the Mysore hills and Tenasserim. This may have been believed fifty years ago, but it has ong ince been found that the southern tree is not Sal, but another Dipterocarp. Of Deodar, the most important tree of the Himalayas, we hear very little.The Forests of Upper India and their Inhabitants.By Thomas W. Webber. Pp. xvi + 344; with 2 maps. (London: Edward Arnold, 1902.) Price 12s. 6d. net.