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to J. The soil appears excellent, and is partially brought into culti- 

 vation. In the rainy season the depth is said to be such, that some 

 tall trees, which are situate about the middle, are completely sub- 

 merged. The extreme steepness of the mountains which surround 

 it, must carry down their supplies quicker than they can run off; 

 and in this way has a deep and rugged glen been filled up with silt 

 and detritus, and converted into a fine level piece of ground ; doubt- 

 less the surface will continue to rise till the waters find a wider 

 outlet over the top of the limestone ridge already noticed, which is 

 not many feet above the present surface. 



The descent from this ridge is considerable, the difference of level 

 between its top and the bottom of the glen being four or five times 

 what it is on the side of the lake, a proof that the latter has been 

 raised considerably. After descending, there is a good deal of level 

 ground, and the path is pretty good, with the exception of occasional 

 boggy places which are troublesome. The road after leading down 

 the glen, enters the bed of the Ramgunga* with such a straight 

 continuity of direction, that though I was on the look-out for the 

 meeting of the two vallies, I did not observe it, and was surprised to 

 find myself encamped on the bank of the latter river. A very exten- 

 sive piece of level ground occurs here, and it is well cultivated ; a 

 fine valley appears E. or S. E., very wide and very level, no rocks 

 were visible, but limestone more or less pure. A good deal of it was 

 seen in the bounding ridges to right, as indicated by the black and 

 yellow precipices. 



25/A Nov. — Sohngaon ; road excellent to-day, level the whole 

 way, the march a short one, being Sunday, about 5 miles. Down 

 the Ramgunga, the bed of which is here a noble plain of many 

 miles in length, and upwards of \ a mile in breadth in some places. 

 Left the village of Nagadh to right in a little glen of 1 or 2 miles. 

 Crossed the river and ascended a larger glen, which though of some 

 extent, is said to lead back upon the Ramgunga, or rather upon the 



* Care should be taken not to confound this Ramgunga which, rising in the cen- 

 tral hills, flows to Moradabad and Bareilly, with the Ramgunga which rises in the 

 snowy range and joins the Surjoo river at Ramesur, a few miles from the junction of 

 the latter with the Kalee river.— J. H. B. 



