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when, like the antient travellers, flie was benighted and bewil- 

 dered on her way : 



A thoufand fantafies 

 Begin to throng into my memory 

 Of calling iliapes, and beclc'ning iliadows dire 

 And aery tongues, that fyllable men's names 

 On lands and fliores, and defert wildernefles. 



Two Streams 

 OF THE Ganges. 



SiRINAGUK, 



Glaciekks. 



To return : — A little beyond Latac^ the river fuddenly bends 

 towards the fouth-eaft, and after near a hundred miles courfe 

 receives the branch of the Ga?tges which flows from the lake 

 Lanken : the courfe ftill continues inclining to the eaft ; it pafles 

 through a gap in the Himmaleh chain, which forms the Gan- 

 gout r a juft mentioned ; this word fignifies a cafcade of the 

 Ganga or Ganges. 



The river from hence is called the Baghyretty ; it pafles 

 along the w^eftern. foot of the great chain, through the fertile 

 Kajabpip of Sirinagur, environed with lofty wooded moun- 

 tains ; the trees very large, on this fide covered with thofe of 

 the country only ; on the other with European trees, fuch as 

 oak, walnut, cherry, peach, rafpberry. Sec. &c. Many of the 

 hills are very high, of a fugar-loaf fhape, covered with a fmooth 

 and verdant turf, and have a flatted top; they rife to a great 

 height one above the other, and are crowned on the fummit of 

 each with a village. From the fummit Mr. Daniell faw the 

 Glacieres of India, which made a moft majeftic and awful ap- 

 pearance even at the diftance of a hundred and fifty miles. 

 The ice rifes often into lofty fpires on the grandeft of fcales ; 

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