1 176 Visit to Melum and the Oonta [No. 132. 



from rock to rock, where the river has a very great fall a little below 

 a very lofty precipice, and where the whole mountain forms a complete 

 wall from the summit to its base, which is washed by the stream : besides 

 the ladders across the stream, there were several others along the 

 road, which would have been impassable without them. Passed snow- 

 beds, one with a very singular appearance, having a complete archway 

 through which a stream passed which fell from a great height over a 

 steep precipice immediately behind it ; the front part of the arch had 

 melted away. Below Luspa, about a mile near the bed of the Gooree, 

 large blocks of granite. Formation to Boodur, gneiss with granite 

 veins. 



3rd October. — 9h. 45m. a. m. barometer 22.545, air 64°. mercury 

 65° 5', moist ther. 57°. Marched at llh. 20m. a. m. Arrived at 

 Rarra at 3h. 45m. p. m., stopped about an hour or so on the road to 

 sketch ; road very bad over rocks and ladders. General direction of 

 river, N. Gneiss the whole way, no granite blocks beyond the com- 

 mencement of the march. Trees of various kinds growing, day warm, 

 found white pantaloons pleasant. Rarra* lies about half an hour's 

 ascent up the mountain after crossing a small torrent over a sanga, 

 which comes from the West, and which has a precipitous fall. The 

 fallf of the Gooree is also great, and I regret I was unable to ascertain 

 the fall from Boodur, owing to the man with the barometer having pre- 

 ceded me some distance. 



Passed numerous parties of Bhoteeahs on their road to Munsaree, 

 with sheep and goats laden with salt and borax. They were halted 

 near this, and started about the middle of the night, and kept up such 

 an incessant noise, as to keep me awake nearly all night.J Heavy 

 showers of rain fell during the evening, and early part of this night. 

 Formation gneiss. 



4th October. — Fine morning and cold wind blowing ; 8 a. m. ther. 



* The waterfalls up the Rarra glen are some of the grandest in the hills. — J. H. B. 



f Near Boodur, or more properly Bugdoar, the fall of the Gooree is tremendous, 

 in some spots at the rate of not less than 800 feet per mile. The Aluknunda in some 

 parts of the road to Buddrinath has an ascertained fall of 650 feet in a mile, and the 

 descent of the Mundakinee river, below Kedarnath, is one continuous cataract for 

 about two miles. Such are the Himalayan torrents. — J. H. B. 



X The sheep and goats cannot travel in the day time after the sun becomes hot; 

 hence these night marches. — J. H. B. 



