COURSE AND LEVELS 



From Nirtto Kotgerh was rather along march; the distance being about 

 nine miles ; we did not arrive till past twelve, and found the ascent from 

 the bed of the river extremely fatiguing, owing to the heat more than the 

 steepness. Our constitutions having been so long accustomed to the brac- 

 ing air of the Himalaya tract, were little prepared to encounter the heats 

 which even at this season prevail in a river valley, so narrow and so deep 

 as this of the Setlej. The temperature of Kotgerh however which is be- 

 tween 3 and 4000 feet higher, we found agreeable, and a few days after our 

 arrival we had a heavy fall of snow. 



From Kotgerh the journey continued along the banks of the river to with- 

 in a few marches of Belaspnr, but as little worthy of description occurred 

 in this part of the route, and as this narrative has already swelled to a size 

 Hot originally contemplated, I shall conclude my remarks here, referring 

 the reader to the appendix for the few particulars of scientific import col- 

 lected. In the appendix I have given an idea of the construction of the 

 snap and of the methods by which the few points of level fixed were de- 

 termined. There will be found also two short vocabularies, one of Kand- 

 weri, the other of Tartar words, and some other particulars that were omit- 

 ted in the narrative. The reader will thus be better able to judge of the 

 value of the few results fixed by this journey, as also what may yet remain 

 desiderata in that interesting quarter of research. 



