1842.] Dhoora Pass in Juwahir. 1161 



\9th September. — 7 a. m. thermometer 43° 5', moist thermometer 

 39°. Very fine clear morning, towards noon became cloudy, and it 

 rained gently all the afternoon. 



Picked up near the village specimens No. 55 to 61, most of them 

 Specimens containing copper (?) Some disseminated, some in 

 small veins, and some in pyrites. This ore seems 

 to occupy very generally the rocks up the bed of a small stream 

 which runs close to the south of the village ; it does not appear in 

 any of the soft friable, slaty rock, which is the general rock, but in 

 that of the harder kinds, and in quartz. 



20th September. — Halt ; morning cloudy, gentle rain during the 

 forenoon, cleared up a little towards 4 o'clock. At 2 r. m. thermometer 

 52° 5', moist thermometer 48°. The ooah jhow* is just ripe here, 

 and is being cut. It is sown sometime in the month of May. Turnips 

 are grown here, but they are small and strong; they say they were 

 brought from Dhurma. 



They say it is two days' journey from Melum to the Pass, and from 

 thence four days to Neetee ; two alternate days no village to encamp 

 at, the whole road within our own boundary. - ]" 



They travel for five days from the bottom of the other side of the 

 Pass, before they come to any Tartar habitation. There is no chokee 

 near the Pass at present, to prevent any traveller approaching the 

 opposite side. There is a road from the Pass through the Tartar fron- 

 tier to Branse, fifteen days journey. 



21 st September. — Halt; morning fair and clear, fresh snow on all 

 the high neighbouring peaks. 10 a. m. thermometer 46°, thermo- 

 meter in sun 52°, hoar frost in the shade at this hour. Observed the 

 hour of noon to-day, and found our watches a quarter of an hour too fast. 

 The people here say, they are not subject to be visited by severe 

 storms at this season, (the Equinox,) and that only a little rain and 

 snow fall. There has blown, however, every day since our arrival here, 

 a very unpleasant cold wind, which sets in about 12 or 1 p. m., and 

 continues till near sunset. The Bhoteeahs here reside in the hot 



* Ooa Jow, Hordeum coeleste. — J. H. B. 



f Not if Oonta Dhoora is our boundary ; as that Pass has to be crossed to reach 

 Gertee, which is intermediate between Oonta Dhoora and Neetee. See Sketch No. 1. 

 -J. A. W. 



