208 Journal of a trip through Kulu and Ldhul, fyc. [March, 



bank of the river, and continues along the water's edge for some dis- 

 tance. The stream divides, and winds amid luxuriantly wooded islets, 

 now rushing impetuously in one sheet of white foam over rocks, and 

 again murmuring occasionally unseen between overhanging trees ; now 

 joined by torrents vehemently roaring and white with foam ; and 

 again gleaming placidly in the sunshine between the numerous islets, 

 which are covered with many kinds of trees, including the apricot, the 

 peach, the apple, and the pear — with the wild vine and wild fig. The 

 scenery is remarkably beautiful, and extremely pleasing to the eye from 

 its greenness and variety. 



Just before reaching Dwara, we crossed the Phajloti or Phajrani 

 nullah by a bridge of spars 100 feet in length, with a planked roadway 

 4 feet in width. The span of the bridge was 60 feet, with a rise above 

 the stream of 18 feet. The Phajrani is a large unfordable nullah, with 

 a bed full of boulders. 



At Dwara we procured fine large wild apples with plenty of good 

 cucumbers and peaches. We put up in the same Dharmsala, which 

 Capt. Broome and myself occupied in 1839. A Dharmsala is properly 

 a traveller's house, and it is sometimes attached to a temple, as at Dwa- 

 ra. In 1839 it was unoccupied, but this year we found that a Gosain 

 had established himself in the building — to the exclusion of all travel- 

 lers, who are obliged to put up in an open shed close to the Dharmsala. 

 Height of Dwara 5,150 feet above the sea. 



Thursday 20th August. Marched to Monali, 14 miles. For the 

 first two miles the road lay along the edge of an alluvial flat, it then 

 descended to the low ground near the river which was covered with 

 boulders and jungle, through which it continued for one mile, occasion- 

 ally along the brink of the river. It then ascended a rocky point, and 

 again descended to the river, in which, at the foot of the cliff a pathway 

 about 50 feet in length was constructed of loose stones, which were 

 covered with water. Beyond this point to the Sita kund, 9 miles from 

 Dwara, the foliage was very thick. The large sweet pea, and small 

 plants, with pink and blue bells were very common ; and the jungle was 

 filled with the gigantic nettle, 8 and 9 feet high, with leaves more than 

 a foot broad, and from a foot to a foot and a half in length. 



The Sita-kiind is a hot spring of a bitter taste : temprature 104° ; the 

 same as I found it in 1839. It is 5,700 feet above the sea, in the middle 



