42 Extracts from the “ Journal of a Survey to explore [Jury, 
though, perhaps, far from correct, may serve to give an idea of 
it. By the course of the river is a pass to Bhoat or Thibet, by 
which the people from Reital and the upper villages of Rowaien 
go to get salt, blanket cloth, and wool, in exchange for grain. 
The trade is trifling, and not more than 100 people go yearly ; in 
the latter end of the rains the road is open. They carry their 
goods on sheep and goats. The Brahman has been at the fron- 
tier village called Neitang ; it is four long and very difficult days’ 
journey. The first three days are up the course of the river, 
high above its bed for the most part, but occasionally descend- 
ing to it. It is exceedingly steep and difficult. 
First day.—They go along the high precipice on the right 
bank of the river: a sangha at the end of along march. Very 
bad path. No village. 
Second day.—Having crossed, very bad path to Cartcha, a 
halting place. Novillage. Cedar pines here. 
Third day.—On same bank of the river to Handouly, a halt- 
ing place; but no village. Not very long march. 
Fourth day.—The frontier or (do-phashias) village called Nei- 
tang, in the district of Tangsah ; at this village, the river seems 
(they say) but little diminished in size, and there is a sangha 
over it. The Brahman can give no account of its origin, except 
that he believes it comes from some hills in Bhoat. The first 
part of the course of the river upwards, so far as can be seen from 
Bhairog’hati, is 72° NE.; and from what J can understand, it 
appears that this river has its source to the north of that ridge 
of the Himalaya which bounds the Bhagirat’hi to the NE. or on 
its right bank, and that between Bhairog’hati, and, perhaps, the 
third day’s march above-mentioned, it forces itself through the 
range. The Brahman says that at the village, and for the last 
day’s march to it, the mountains are bare of trees, and that they 
are not the Cylas mountains (i..e. not what we call snowy 
mountains) but that the Cylas peaks towards Gangotri are seen 
to the right, and so they would be, if we suppose the course of 
the Jahnevi up, to be about N. 70 E.; and the course of the 
Ganges is, we know from hence, considerably to the 8. of E. 
By the way I may mention here, that cylas is a general appella- 
tion for high ranges always covered with snow, in the same way 
as we say Himalaya or Himachal (which last indeed literally 
means snowy peaks). 
At Neitang, the houses are built very low on account of the 
high winds. Travellers suffer much from difficulty in breathing, 
caused, as they say, by the bic’h or bis’h; i. e. exhalations from 
poisonous herbs which grow on the high bare knolls. This 
frontier district of Tungsah appears to be considered to belong 
to what they call here Bhoat or Thibet, and they pay their land. 
tribute to a collector who comes from Chaprang. Of the distance, 
or size, or direction, of Chaprang, I could not get any satisfac- 
tory account, but it appears to be a Chinese dependency. The 
