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an avalanche of snow in the spring, and the 

 Rajah of Teree allows fourteen rupees a year 

 to replace it. 



The name of this bridge is Biram-ghattee, 

 and here a large stream joins the Ganges, 

 which many people declare to be the main 

 river, and not a tributary. But I think it 

 has no claim to so distinguished an honour. 

 It derives its source from three small 

 rivulets, which rise in Thibet, above and not 

 far from Neilang, the frontier village of 

 Thibet. I have been at the sources of 

 these three streams, and I am sure that 

 nobody who had seen the waters rushing 

 from the snow at the Cow's Mouth, would 

 wish to transfer the source of such a 

 splendid river to so insignificant a com- 

 mencement as the one in Tibet. 



The NeUang Tartars allow WUson, and 

 anybody accompanying Jmn, to pass into 

 their country, and it is the only place where 

 he can get in. The reason is that they are 

 obliged to move into the Valley of the 

 Ganges during the winter, their own country 



