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coming by intervals and in such a scene, had a singular effect. Fortunate- 

 ly they were wise enough to listen to our prohibitions, and to halt on the 

 other side. In the morning they came in, and I was happy to find, notwith- 

 standing the dangerous nature of the road, that there was no accident. 



Thermometer at 40o a temperature indicating considerable elevation. 

 We set out a little before seven, but, in consequence of the fatiguing march- 

 es of the two preceding days, did not deem it advisable to proceed more 

 than six miles and a half, to Hopeha Wodar, a halting place (no village,) on 

 the banks of a stream. Notwithstanding the early hour at which we set 

 out and the comparative shortness of the stage we did not sit down to 

 breakfast till 1 p. m. The path was in general good, and part of it was ex- 

 cellent and passable for horses : I must except, however, the immediate 

 descent to the bed of the stream where we encamped, which was almost 

 equal to any thing we had yet seen in danger and difficulty. There was 

 not however much of it. We found it very cold during the day, and a high 

 wind served to render it still more uncomfortable. The appearance of the 

 place was bleak, barren, and desolate. 



To Dabling, we found a distance of seven miles and a quarter, so that the 

 whole route from Nissang to Dabling, in which no village or habitation 

 is met with, was twenty-six miles. These miles it is to be recollected are 

 however estimated in rather a rough manner, and therefore 1 lay no great 

 stress on this value of the distance ; it is certain that it is not less than 

 twenty. This path presents no difficulties but there is some steep ascent 

 and descent. We observed granite in this march occupy the place of 

 the clay slate which we have had from Murang, I may say. We passed 

 the Pose or Namptu Sanga, a well constructed wooden bridge with rail- 

 ings over the Setlej at Pose. The river has the appearance of having 

 been obstructed by a barrier of rocks, through which it forces for itself a 

 passage: on these rocks, which still narrow the stream, the bridge rests. 

 This bridge, I believe, wants repairs, and as it is in the principal, and least 



