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streams passed are inconsiderable, but a large one, rising between the 

 pass, and the Chilt ka Dunda flows down the spacious wooded glen on 

 the right hand towards the Surjoo, and in one spot forms a fine water- 

 fall. The limestone rock ceases at Sooring, and is replaced by quartzose 

 rocks, and finally by gneiss. The views across the Surjoo are very 

 grand, and from the pass we enjoyed, not to-day, but on our return, 

 a near and magnificent, though contracted prospect of the snowy range : 

 — extending from the Nunda Kot Peak on the east to Mauntolee ka 

 Dhoora (Trisool) on the west. The eastern peak of the Trisool (No. 

 XIII. of the map) faces the west in a great bluff (which our guides 

 affirmed to be Nunda Devee), from which a long easy ridge, presenting 

 to us an unbroken sheet of snow, slopes down to the east, connecting 

 the Trisool with the Nunda Devee cluster. Strange to say that here, 

 within 20 miles of the two great rocky peaks of this cluster, and 

 elevated 10,800 feet, they are invisible, being concealed by the two 

 beautiful pinnacles of pure snow, which from Almorah, &c. are seen 

 to be merely the abrupt terminations of two immense spurs, the eastern- 

 most of which, apparently with a large Loggan stone on its summit, 

 is there known as Nunda-khat, " Devee' s bed/' From this point of 

 view it rises into so fine and lofty a spire that our ignorant guides 

 insisted it was the Darcoola (Panch-choola). In the hollow between 

 the Trisool and Nunda groups rises the Soondur-Doongee or Redinga 

 river, which flowing nearly south down a narrow and most profound 

 glen, joins the Pindur a little above Wachum, affording probably the 

 best and easiest route to the traveller desirous of penetrating to the 

 core of the Nunda Devee mass. This stream, we were assured, has 

 its source in a glacier like that at Pindree. East of Nunda Devee, 

 in a deep col is " Traill's Pass" supposed by him to be 20,000 feet 

 high, leading nobody to Milum ; its eastern portal formed by the 

 N. W. shoulder of " Nunda Kot" — which mountain closes the view 

 in a colossal rectangular summit of pure snow, with the glen of the 

 Pindur easily made out. The line of perpetual or at all events of 

 unmelted snow, was very well defined along the whole extent of the 

 range, certainly 2000 feet below the crest of Traill's Pass. It is 

 unfortunate for the hurried tourist that to the east of the Dhakree 

 Benaik the range gradually rises, and three or four miles distant, in 

 the Chilt ka Dunda, a bluff woody summit with a temple to Devee, 



