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by the melting of the snows in the summer months) 

 that has penetrated into the fissures and crevices of 

 the cliffs, becoming congealed by the frost, expands 

 in volume, and rends the live rock asunder with 

 irresistible force, hurling masses, hundreds of tons 

 in weight, down the face of the precipice, and 

 strewing the valley below with fragments and 

 debris. 



Continuing our way along the right bank below 

 the snow-clad Deo-goojar, we crossed the Shean- 

 Gadh, by a sango, where the gorge opens out, and 

 the Ganges divides into several shallow streams 

 that flow along a bed of shingles and sand, and 

 passing the confluence of the Ghoomtee and Her- 

 sula Gunga, which are separated from each other 

 by a narrow ledge of lofty rocks, we passed over to 

 the left or southern bank, forded the Keeree and 

 several other tributary streams that take their rise 

 among the high snow-covered mountains of the 

 Jaunli range, and after traversing a magnificent 

 forest of deodars, some of which were of gigantic 

 proportions, halted at Derallee, where our camp 

 was pitched in an apricot orchard. — Distance eight 



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