222 Journal of a trip through Kulu and L&hul, fyc. [March, 



season ; whereas we have, from Moorcroft's faithful description, the 

 most satisfactory proof that they have existed exactly in their present 

 state for the last six and twenty years. The larger one of these capital 

 stones appeared to me from a rough calculation to be between 6 and 8 

 tons in weight. 



Wednesday, 9th September. To Demra, 4 miles. Road for three 

 quarters of a mile to the northward along the right bank of the Yunam 

 river. We then ascended by a very steep zigzaggy path up the face 

 of the hill to the eastward, until we reached the bank of the CMmi 

 nullah. From this the path alternately ascended and descended over 

 spurs of the hills on the right bank of the stream to Demra, a halting- 

 place, where fuel and water are procurable. 



Thursday, 10th September. To Ganga Anaj, 10 miles. Road from 

 Demra, at first undulating, then a steep ascent for about 500 feet, after 

 which a very rapid descent to the bed of the nullah at a level spot called 

 Sumdo [the three streams, from Sum, three] where three small streams 

 join their waters. From this point there was a long ascent for about 4 

 miles to the top of the Langa-Lach Pass, 16,043 feet above the sea. 

 The Pass was crowned as usual by a pile of stones covered with bits of 

 cloth, and dedicated to Gepan. From the Pass there was an easy de- 

 scent for nearly six miles along the left bank of a nameless nullah, chiefly 

 over steep, gravelly slips. Road stony and very narrow. The nullah 

 is a mere ravine between siliceous rocks which rise from 1500 to 2000 

 feet above the bed of the stream. 



At Ganga Anaj, where we halted, the bluish grey siliceous cliffs from 

 800 to 1000 feet in height, stand almost perpendicularly facing each 

 other at a distance of only 120 yards apart at base, as shown in the 

 sketch. The whole way down to this point the sides of the ravine are 

 of a gravelly conglomerate lying in horizontal strata composed of frag- 

 ments of all sizes, from several tons in weight to the smallest grains of 

 the same bluish grey siliceous rock, cemented firmly together by some 

 siliceous matter more or less mixed with clay. As the fall from the 

 top of the Pass to this point is only 491 feet, and the cliffs are nearly 

 1 000 feet in height, it seems almost certain that the ravine was once 

 blocked up at this point, and that a long lake formerly existed there, in 

 which this gravelly conglomerate was deposited in sediment, as it is 

 composed of fragments of the rocks on each side. 



