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the flour, giving as much of one as the other. Therm, at 7 p.m. 59°, 

 at 9 p.m. 57°. 



24th. Cheenee — 3 coss, height 9,000 feet. Thermometer at 6 a.m. 

 49°. The Begars (porters) not being all ready we took breakfast 

 before we started, the march being short. The road was good, the 

 temperature pleasant, and the scenery fine. The pure snow which 

 covered a lofty range in front of us, glistened beautifully in the clear 

 sunshine. A small torrent we crossed had a high wall of snow on each 

 side, some yards from its bank, which it had probably brought down 

 from above, and here thrown up on its banks. The ground near 

 Cheenee is rather more level, and there is one field close to it of about 

 two acres, the largest piece of level ground we have seen since leaving 

 Koteghur. The situation is very good, and the scenery grand ; but 

 the village itself wretched, and all the houses going to ruins ; we first 

 got into the shed in front of the temple, which we fitted up with 

 kunauts, but not fitting very well, they did not exclude the weather, 

 which was becoming stormy. The Mookhya shewed us a house 

 which had been occupied by a Mr. Walker, and was one of the best, 

 but it was so dark and filthy, we preferred pitching our tent. The 

 evening was very chill and cloudy, and we had a shower of rain after 

 going to bed. Thermometer at 3 p.m. 63°, at 9 p.m. 53°. 



25th. Pungee — 4 coss. Thermometer at 7 a.m. 49°, at 9 a.m. 55°. 

 The rain having wetted the tent we took breakfast before starting. 

 Just after quitting Cheenee, we came to a fine grove of Nyoza firs, 

 from which we had a most interesting prospect. The ground in 

 front of the village, for the extent of two or three miles, is pretty level, 

 but divided by the terraces into fields of sometimes a very respect- 

 able size, which division gives it a diversity, and supplies in the pros- 

 pect the place of enclosures. The land is well cultivated, and prettily 

 studded with apricot trees in blossom, but not in foliage, and some 

 firs, with a few flat-roofed and neat looking cottages scattered over it. 

 This peaceful scenery is bounded, and finely contrasted by the stu- 

 pendous mountains, which rise like an amphitheatre in front, and ap- 

 pear at no great distance ; their rugged sides blackened with large 

 forests of every species of fir, up to what is apparently the boundary 

 of vegetation, and their peaked tops covered with the purest snow, 

 which extends in huge fields, on which the beholder gazes in admira- 



