Mr. H. T. Colebrooke's Remarks on the Setlej River. sfiy 



barley showed so large and fuU, that the average of eight picked casually 

 was seventy-eight fold. Most of the fields were yellow, and a iesv had been 

 cut. 



The glen runs east and west, and has a nearly level surface. A stream 

 flows on each side of it, and one through the middle ; and the supply of 

 water never fails. 



The mountains around are limestone : the same had been observed at 

 ChoUng. Those on the north are steep and naked ; on the south more 

 gently inclined, and they are covered with grass and furze. 



The march of the next day was to Stagnam by the Hangrang pass (14,800 

 feet above the sea). The limestone is broken by the action of the weather 

 mto a gravelly surface, thickly clad with furze, juniper, and short grass, the 

 and pasturage of the cattle. Horses were seen loose, feeding at the heieht 

 of 15,000 feet above the sea. 



From the pass the view extended to the elevated range between the 

 Setlej and Indus, from N. 15° E. to N. 10° W. It is most probably a con- 

 tmuation of the lofty range seen from KeUra7ig .- it was so completely 

 covered with snow, that not a rock could be distinguished by a telescope of 

 large magnifying power. 



Limestone disappears, and clay slate is frequent, near Sungnam. This 

 populous place, in the valley of the Ddrking, had been already visited by 

 Messrs. Gerard (in 1818). It is 9,350 feet above the sea. At this place, where 

 they halted for several days (17th to 28th August) Capt. Gerard remarks • 

 " The situation is fine, in a glen bounded on the north and south by lofty 

 ranges of mountains, the passes through which are nearly 15 000 feet 

 above the sea. On the N. W. up the course of the Ddrbiing, is a high pass 

 to Sp/ti ; and to the S. E., the Setlej, at the distance of several miles For 

 the space of five miles, this valley presents a sheet of cultivation. There 

 are two crops here, and the grains are barley, ogul ? and pluiimr ? there is 

 plenty of pease, beans, and turnips ; and wheat and Siberian barley thrive 

 at .great elevations upon the slopes of the dell. Around the viUa<re are 

 vineyards, and orchards of apples, apricots, and walnuts. 



" In this neighbourhood the pine, to which we had long been strangers 

 begins to raise its head ; it is stunted in growth, and thinly scattered upon 

 the surrounding mountains. 



" We stopped here till the 28th August, and at times we were somewhat 

 incommoded by the heat ; during our halt the temperature of the open air 



