] 842.] Dhoora Pass in Juwahir. 1 1 59 



the road) ; the path then continued along the sloping side of the moun- 

 tain, ascending occasionally, with a little descent here and there. Ground 

 covered with the wild strawberry? (or potentilla.) Little or no rock 

 visible ; gradually changing from gneiss to a kind of mica slate, 

 and from that into a greywacke and talcose clay slate. Arrived 

 at our tents at 2h. 45m. p. m., distance about five miles. The village 

 of Raalim, about two miles further on, consists of about twelve mows 

 (families. — J. H. B.) The torrent to this had a northerly course, 

 and from this as far as visible to a large snow bed; its course* is 

 about N. E. — 4h. 15m. p.m. barometer 19.207; t. m. 54, air 50; 

 m. t. 49°. 



N. B. — Could procure only twenty-one coolies from the village. 

 A road leads from this up the bed of the torrent, four days' journey 

 for loaded men, to the village of Sheeboohf in Dhurma, but very bad 

 and dangerous. 



11 th September. — 8 a. m. thermometer 42°. Marched at 9h. 32m. 

 Specimens a. ic, and commenced a very steep ascent ; the 

 rock to the top of the Pass of Bircheegung, clay 

 slate, talc slate, and greywacke, and near the Pass, a few blocks of 

 quartz. The whole ascent occupied three and half hours ; the higher 

 we ascended, we felt the difficulty of breathing greater, and consequent- 

 ly the fatigue of walking ; found I could not walk more than from ten 

 to twenty paces, according to the steepness of the ascent, my legs feel- 

 ing as if they would drop off. When two-thirds up the ascent, a snow 

 storm came on, (but the snow melted as fast as it fell to the ground,) 

 when the thermometer immediately fell to 32°. At the top of the Pass, 

 at 1 p. m. it was 30°. As we ascended, vegetation gradually decreased, 

 and towards the summit of the Pass, wholly disappeared, and nothing 

 but broken fragments of clay and talc slate and quartz presented them- 

 selves to the eye. The Pass, judging from the time taken to ascend it, 

 and from all vegetation ceasing, must be at least 15,000 feet; but 

 owing to the lad who carried part of the apparatus belonging to 

 the barometer having preceded me some distance, I was unable to 



* From the sketch and the text, it appears that the writer does not mean by course 

 and direction of the Raalim, the course of its current (for, that is in a southerly direc- 

 tion,) but the line of ascent along its bed, and towards its sources.— J. H. B. 



t Seeboo.— J. H. B. 



