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and armed with bows and arrows, and other weapons peculiar 

 to them *. 



Immediately beyond Coos Beyhar arifes the great range of Vast Mouk- 

 mountains which gives admittance through their paffes into '^^'^^^' 

 Bootan, each of which, difficult as they are, is fortified. The 

 ridge rifes here a mile and a half in perpendicular height, and 

 affords a moft aftonllliing view over the plains of H'mdoojian al- 

 mofl immediately fubjacent, and ftretched beneath like a bound-- 

 lefs ocean when it firft burfl on the eye of the traveller, yet 

 behind thefe arife other ranges of far funerior heights, which 

 foar with a majefty patl: the power of the pen to defcribe, and 

 fliew their fnowy tops to the melting inhabitants of Bengal a. 

 hundred and fifty miles diflant. 



In the gorges of this firfl range, not far to the north-weft of Delamcotta- 

 Coos Beybar, flands, on a lofty and rude pyramidal mountain, 

 with a flatted head, the fort of Delanicotta. It is impoflible 

 for imagination to invent a ruder fituation; the furrounding 

 mountains are equally horrible, and approximate fo near as to 

 form only darkfome chafms of immenfe depth. On the fides 

 are narrow roads impending over the dreadful precipices. Along 

 thefe paths Gaptain John Jones, on April 7th, 1773, led his de-- 

 tachment to attack this aerial fortrefs, and took it by ftorm. This Taken ey 

 was done in refentment of the infult offered Xo Coos Beybar.. I ai'^ain Jones. 

 n-uft that this hero was a l-Fel/Jjman, and may be added to the 

 lift of my illuftrious countrymen, who have crowned their heads 

 with v/ell-earned laurels^ All the fpoils favored of Tartarian 



* Mr. Bogle's account of Thibet, publiflied in the Phil, Tranf. vcl. Ixvii. p. 467. 



origin, 



