"willows, maples & ash took forest but fir trees predominate everywhere. Thickets of tall cone on soil covered slopes above which grows Rhododendron. trees grow in dense forest forming no viburnums, spruce or pine trees at this altitude. Clear nights cold & frosty with thin ice. Sharp chiefly foggy & raining, often very windy. Leaves of maple, ash, willows etc. Brightly tinted by frost, red & yellow