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the light fides were ftained in the moft elegant manner with a 

 rofeate color. Another great river, called the Ahicmundra^\s\\\Q\\. 

 rifes far amidft the mountains of Thibet, joins the Baghyretty* 

 at Dcuprag. Here Mr. Rennely on the authority of Mr. Daniell, 

 places a middle Gangoutra. A few miles below the city of Si- 

 rinagur it alTumes the name of Ganges^ and retains it the reft 

 of its courfe : it flows through the remainder of Sirinagur to 

 Hurdzvar, where it rullies through another Gaiigoutra, through 

 a gap in the Sewalic chain, unheard of before, till pointed out 

 to us by the inveftigation of Mr. Danie/l : As to the Ahicmun- 

 dra, he reprefents it as a river confined through a rocky chan- 

 nel only a hundred yards wide, and of immenfe rapidity, and 

 crolTed by rope bridges of peculiar conftrudions. 



Mr. DanieWs travels in this part of Hindoojlan were attended 

 with great difficulties, but with all the pleafure that muft attend 

 the elegant mind of the fine artift. In this part of his journey 

 he croflTed the Ganges, in about Lat. 28° 30', to Sumbrul-, eafterly 

 to Barwiaghiir, Afulghur, Nejigabad, and the Hurdwar ; from 

 thence he returned through the foreft at the foot of the Sezvalic 

 movmtains to Loldong, continued his arduous route to Condawar 

 Ghaut, entered the pafs there, and made a fix day's journey 

 over the mountains to Sirinagur. What a feafi: may the public 

 expe6l of intellectual and vifual entertainment from the pro- 

 du(5lion of a pencil, of which they have had already a tafte fo 

 fully fatisfaitory. 



Hurdwar is feated to the weft fouth-weft of Sirinagur, amj.dft Hurdwar. 

 moft piiturefque mountains of conic form. I have feen a 

 drawing taken on the fpot : it is the great refort of the Hindoos, 

 who flatter themfelves that it is the fource of their venerated 



ftream. 



