48 Extracts from the “ Journal of a Survey to explore (Jury, 
melting the snow was at that season so powerful that it was 
daily much augmented ; and on our return to Gangotri on the 
2d of June, the depth of the main stream was two feet, and it 
was a few feet wider:(but I did not then measure the width). 
Several shallow side channels had also been filled in the interval, 
and on the whole I estimate that the volume of water was 
doubled. 
Though the frequency of the earthquakes made us_ very 
anxious to get out of our dangerous situation in the bed of the 
river, we resolved, as we had come so far, to leave no means 
untried to trace the stream as far as possible, and accordingly 
set out on the morning of the 29th of May, hoping to arrive at 
the head of the river in the course of the day. The two Gangotri 
Brahmins could not give any information as to how far it might 
be distant; they had never been higher than Gangotri, and 
assured us that no persons ever went further, except the Munshi, 
who appears by the account in the Asiatic Researches to have 
gone about two miles. 
Mr. James Frazer visited Gangotri im 1815, and was the first 
European who did so. 
From Gangotri forward up the Ganges. 
Pass avalanche and fragments of rock newly fallen, and 
which cover the path. 
Ascend a snow bed which covers the river; it is about 50 feet 
thick. 
Over the snow bed, and descend to the open stream. | Here a 
gorge of huge rocks obstructs the stream; they have all fallen 
from above. 
N.B. The Brahmins say they never heard of any rock or place 
called the Cow’s Mouth, or Gao Muc’h, or any thing like it 
either in sound or signification. We did not see or hear of any 
image whatever. 
River flows under a snow bed; a rill of water from the snow 
to right. High precipices on both sides all the way. 
Alternate avalanches of snow and rock recently fallen. River 
under an avalanche of 500 feet thick ; the snow hard and frozen. 
A great fall of the peaks. River bed filled with fallen rocks, 
and difficult to pass. The stream, a succession of cataracts. 
High peaks above. 
Over fragments. Here the river falls out of a snow bed ina 
cascade of foam: ascend the great snow bed. 
Strong ascent of the snow bed, which is about 100 feet thick, 
over the river. Mis 
Cross a torrent six feet wide and nine inches deep; it comes 
from a cleft in the peaks to the left. River here under a’ snow 
bed. 18. Msp 
River turns the foot of high snowy peaks to the right ; preei- 
pices quite perpendicular to the left. Rudra Himalaya peak, 97°, 
