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reached the village of Suroua, situated in a lovely little valley, where 

 we saw wheat as fine as any in England. Above the village, the valley 

 is a level meadow about three quarters of a mile long by half a mile 

 in breadth, surrounded on all sides by thick woods of walnut, chesnut, 

 apricot, peach, and cherry, with acacia, mimosa, cypress, cedar, and 

 every variety of pine : amongst which were white and red roses, jessa- 

 mine, a white flowering thorn like may, and a beautiful large iris, besides 

 wall-flowers, forget-me-not, strawberries and poleantus, with flow- 

 ers of all shades of red, brown, and yellow. There were three water- 

 falls at the head of the valley ; the lowest and least pouring down in 

 one unbroken stream over the rock, which is naturally hollowed into a 

 deep recess, forming a very pretty, cool, and musical bower. 



On the 24th of June we reached the top of the Pass at the head of 

 the Suroan Valley, called Chaol Ghaut, 10,170 feet high, where we 

 halted for the night. Snow was lying in a sheltered ravine on the 

 northern slope of the mountain, which is part of the lofty range forming 

 the shed-water between the Sutluj and Beeas rivers. Several of the 

 peaks in this range are 18,000 feet in height, and are covered with 

 perpetual snow. From this we descended over a clayey soil, made 

 dangerously slippery by incessant rain, to the village of Bedath, at the 

 junction of the two torrents which form the Teerthun river, along 

 whose banks we proceeded for three days to Larjee, where it joins the 

 Syneja river, and where about 100 yards lower down the united 

 streams fall into the Beeas river, just at that point where the Beeas 

 after running for a long course southward turns abruptly to the west 

 through a narrow gorge, the channel of the three united streams not 

 being so broad as that of any one of them. We were much surprized 

 to find that this remarkable junction of three large streams was not 

 esteemed holy. We rested in a large cave excavated in the variegated 

 marble rock by Munnee Ram, a former Wuzeer of Kooloo ; who, we 

 were told used frequently to come to this place for many days together 

 to escape from the cares of state ; but more likely he came to bathe at 

 the junction of the three rivers, for a more sterile and inhospitable 

 place could not be conceived. 



We then ascended the course of the Beeas river, which widened 



after a few miles into a beautiful large valley; 



Beeas river. , , , 



generally about half a mile across, and wooded 



down to the water's edge, with a broad winding stream variegated 



