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remark here that the Gooya or Gweeya of Mr. Traill's Report, which 

 he calls the Sweet Potato, is in fact the edible Arum or Colocasia. 



September \'3th. — To Kupkot, 14£ or 15 miles. The river above, 

 Bagesur bisects the open tract of ground before alluded to ; and then 

 till within two or three miles of Kupkot, winds its impetuous way 

 through a gigantic ravine rather than a valley, the entire floor being 

 frequently occupied by its bed, now reduced to half the width it has 

 below. This narrow channel is exceedingly deep, and in some places 

 the waters flow more quietly for a space, in black pools, the whole not 

 a little resembling the Findhorn in Morayshire. Over one of these, 

 three or four miles from Bagesur, a single spar is thrown for a bridge, 

 from which the passenger, at a depth of 30 or 40 feet below him, may- 

 see the water swarming with large Muhaseer.* The river flows in a 

 channel of live rock, from which the mountains rise precipitously ; 

 and in one place the road has to be carried for a hundred yards or 

 more, along the face of the cliff ; in general however, the rise is that 

 of the river, only interrupted by the many feeders from the mountains 

 to the left ; on which occasions, for some unknown reason, the Puha- 

 rees always make a dip, involving a troublesome ascent on the other 

 side. At three miles, we crossed one large affluent, and at about seven 

 a second, the Kundilgurh nudee, a furious torrent, which a few days 

 since carried away its bridge ; this was only replaced yesterday, which 

 compelled a reluctant halt of one day at Bagesur, where Messrs. Hort 

 and Powys, H. M. 61st Regiment, overtook us in the afternoon, from 

 Almorah. We found the glen of the Surjoo here almost without 

 habitation — wholly given up to jungle, luxuriant grass, deer, and 

 tigers, the latter much dreaded. On the opposite bank, a little above 

 the Spar Bridge, the river receives a large tributary, the Balee Gunga, 

 and, two or three miles short of Kupkot, ceasing to rage through the 

 narrow gorge which contracts it below, pursues its course along some 

 open, but strong and uncultivated dells, covered with dwarf Zizyphus,-{* 



* The presence of a large fish, apparently of the Shark kind, is well attested, in 

 the Surjoo, from Bagesur downwards; reported to grow 6 feet long, to be devoid of 

 scales, and to have teeth like those of a dog. 



f The famous shrine of Budureenath derives its name from this shrub, the 

 Buduree (now Bcr) or Jujube, Vishnoo being there invoked, like an apothecary, as 

 the " Loid of Jujubes." All ihe synonymes, Budureesuil, Budurcebun, " the 



