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Gandaki. Its course is at first due west almost, for perhaps fifteen 

 miles, but then turns SSW. running in that direction for twenty 

 miles, and more, to Devi Ghaut. It is a deep blue, arrowy, beau- 

 tiful stream, conducting not only the pilgrim to Gosainthan, but 

 the trader and traveller to Tibet ; the road to Kerung in Tibet 

 striking off from the river where it bends (as you ascend) to the 

 east, and the town itself of Kerung being visible from Gosainthan 

 in clear weather, at the distance of perhaps thirty miles. The Trisul, 

 four miles above Nayakote, receives the Betravati at Dhaibung from 

 the NE. It is a petty stream, not having a course of above fifteen 

 miles from one of the resilient angles or bosoms of mount Dhaibung or 

 Jibjibia, the continuation of which ridge towards the west, and across 

 the Trisul, is called Salima Bharsia. This latter ridge conducts 

 another feeder into the Trisul from the NW. called the Salankhu, of 

 about the same size with the Betravati. Considerably south of the 

 Selima ridge, is the ridge called Samribhanjang, whence flows a third 

 and still smaller feeder of the Trisul, named the Samri Khola, which 

 disembogues itself into the Trisul from the N W. half a mile to a mile 

 below the Sunga of Khinchat. The valley of the Trisul is narrow, 

 and without any Byasi, or plain on the level of its waters, which flow in 

 a deep bed. The height, however, on one or both sides, supply numer- 

 ous rills for occasional cultivation, which is maintained as far up as 

 ten miles above Dhaibung, a considerable village, where the ordinary 

 Parbuttiah population begins to yield to the race called Kachar 

 Bhotiahs, or Cis-Hemalayan Bhotiahs. At Devi Ghaut the river Trisul is 

 passed by a ferry most jealously guarded ; nor is the river thence to 

 Devi Ghaut permitted to be used for any sort of transport, or even for 

 the floating of timber, though the rapids (there are no cataracts) may 

 help the prohibition. A few miles below Devi Ghaut the streamlets 

 poured into the Trisul by the glen of Dhunibyasi, affords much better 

 access to the great valley of Nepal, by the route of the Trisul, than 

 that which follows that river to Nayakote and thence leads over 

 Burmandi. These better routes issue into the great valley at Thankote, 

 and at Ichangu Narain. 



ing of the ocean threatened to consume the world. Maha Deva is called "blue throat," 

 from the injury he sustained. He produced the river by striking his Trisul into the 

 snows. 



