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One of the most conspicuous summits of this chain 

 is distinguished by the name of He7n, near the base 

 of which is the famous place o^ Hindu Morsliip called 

 Buddee-nauth. It is marked to travellers by the 

 greater breadth of its top; and rising in four or five 

 lugged, but rather conical points. Its bearing from 

 Avhere I made these notes was N. N. E. 



The road, from this ridge, gradually descending, I 

 arrived, at thirteen minutes past seven, at Teyka-ca 

 Maanda. Here is only one indifferent building, for 

 the accommodation of travellers, and a few scattered 

 hamlets appear on the sides of distant mountains. 



The air proved here as cold as at Adxcaanee, and 

 liaving no shelter from trees, was the more smartly 

 felt. The rocks are of a course dull granite in some 

 places; and in others, extensive beds of various kinds 

 of schistus appear; most of them lying in a vertical 

 position and near the upper surface, dividing into 

 fine laminjE, exhibiting colours, inclining to purple, 

 yellow and green. That most exposed to the air 

 crumbles to dust under its influence. 



On the 28th, I walked, in two hours fifty-five mi- 

 nutes, to Chet-liOte^ situated in a confined valley, 

 M'here the heat was excessive. In the early part of 

 the march, over a gentle ascent, the snowy moun- 

 tains, M-hich had been concealed by a hill in front, 

 suddenly emerging, presented a spectacle truly mag- 

 nificent. 



29th Jpril, 179^, Sirinagur. 



I left Chet-kote this morning at twenty-five mi- 

 nutes past four, the descent still continuing; and 

 twenty minutes walk brought me to a pretty large 

 nullah which falls into the Aluhnundra, a short dis- 

 tance below Sirinagur. By banking up the stream, 

 it is raised to an height sufficient to work two or 



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