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threatening, and we reached our quarters under the rocks at 6h. 20m. 

 p. m., after an absence of about nine hours. Near this oodear on the 

 opposite side of the river, we were told that about eight or nine years 

 ago in this same month, two parties of Bhoteeas, with 200 or 300 

 sheep coming from Tartary were lost in a snow storm, and that at this 

 season snow constantly falls ; but they say there has been very little 

 snow the last two years. 



N. B. Learnt that the fossil bones* which are brought by the Bho- 

 teeas for sale at Bageswur, are not found in the Himalaya, but pur- 

 chased by them at Gertope. Neither are the Saligrarasf found among 

 them, but are brought from the same place. On our return towards 

 Munsaree, picked up specimens of the latter, and some quartz crystals 

 on the top of the peaks above Saeru, which had been left as offerings 

 by travellers, and which may possibly account for those found in a Pass 

 to the westward by the Gerards. 



29th September. — At the Doong oodear, time lOh. 35m. a. m., baro- 

 meter 18.190, temp, of air 44° 5', mercury 45°, moist ther. 34°. 



N. B. Water boiled at 185° of Far. Marched at about llh. 20m. 

 a. m., and reached Milum a little before 6 p. m., but stopped for some 

 Specimens ^ me on tne roa ^ sketching and picking up spe- 



104 and 106. cimens, the road nearly one continued descent, and 

 on numerous places the footing very precarious ; the descent being 

 much more difficult than the ascent in that respect, but of course not 

 nearly so fatiguing. Found our invalids very little improved, and very 

 anxious to leave Milum, and resolved marching back towards Munsaree 

 the following day. 



30^ September. — Milum. Marched 12 a. m., and arrived at the vil- 

 lage of about 6 p. m., but loitered a good deal on the road ; the 



road pretty good, excepting immediately below Pachoo, when after cross- 

 Specimens m S a sma ^ sanga over a stream which comes down 

 107 ard 110. from the direction of Nundee Debee, there is a very 

 difficult steep ascent for some hundred feet, composed of earth and 



* In regard to the fossil bones, this observation is quite correct, but not so in regard 

 to the shells. 



f Vide preceding geological note.— Ammonites are plentiful, and were found 

 by me three miles beyond the Neetee Pass, with their usual accompaniment of 

 belemnites. Lieutenant Weller found at Lufkel, beyond the Juwahir Pass, vast 

 quantities of these fossils, all in situ in black clay slate with limestone. — J. H. B. 



