36 Extracts from the “ Journal of a Survey toexplore [Jury, 
fir, grow here. Immediately on passing the sangha, the path 
leads over an avalanche of snow which reaches to the river’s 
margin; it is many feet thick, and has fallen this year, and 
brought down all the trees in its path. This is the first snow 
bed we passed over on the Ganges. 
The river, abed of foam falling from rock to rock. Five hun- 
dred yards further on, are the falls of Lohari Naig, where the 
river is more obstructed than in any part of its course, and tears 
its way over enormous masses of rock, which have fallen into it 
from the mural precipice which bounds its left shore. This 
frightful granite cliff of solid rock, of above 800 feet high, 
appears to have been undermined at its foot by the stream, and 
the lower and middle part have fallen into it, while the summit 
overhangs the base and the river, The vast ruins of this fall 
extend for about a quarter of a mile; the river has now forced 
its way through, and partly over the rocks, with a noise and 
impetuosity, we thought could not be surpassed; but on our 
return in June, when the Ganges was doubled in depth, the 
scene was still grander. It then just covered the tops of the 
rocks, and one of the falls of the whole stream we estimated at 
25 feet perpendicular, and below it were more, close to each 
other, of little less height. The scene is full of sublimity and 
wildness, and the roar of the water is astounding, 
On the right bank also there has been a recent large slip of 
the mountain, but the above-mentioned on the left bank is for 
its height the most formidable fall I ever saw. It is not recent. 
Cross the Ganges by the sangha of Lohari Naig, 16 paces 
long, and 25 feet above the stream, which is here narrow, deep, 
and has a great fall; the ends of the sangha (which is very nae- 
row) are supported on each side on two great tabular granite 
rocks : that on the right bank is circular, and 150 feet in circum- 
ference. It is of a coarse brown granite, with quartz intermixed, 
and is decomposing in some places. The mountains on both 
sides of the river are very steep. On the left bank of the river 
observed a rill, impregnated with calcareous matter, which is so 
abundant as to incrust every thing it touches very strongly, and 
we collected large pieces of this lime, which is pure, like that at 
Sansir Dhara. This is a singular thing in a region of granite. 
The Lot Garh river joins the Ganges ; cross it by a good little 
sangha. This river is 20 feet wide. This last station has been 
almost level, and a good and pleasant path along a flat of 150 
yards wide by the river side, shaded by caksi, mirei, omil, and 
‘other trees. From the edge of the flat, the rock rises in a 
gigantic mural precipice of about 1500 feet perpendicular, and 
the same across the river. Strata much inclined. The Lot 
Garh river comes from the snow to the right, and is very rapid, 
Ganges here expanded, and the scenery beautiful, 
On our return breakfasted here, 
