IX. 



On the sources of the Ganges, in the Himadri or Emodus. 



By H. T. COLEBROOKE, Esg. 



In presenting to the Asiatick Society, the interesting narrative of a 

 journey to explore the sources of the Gafiges, I shall prefix to it a few- 

 introductory observations to explain the grounds, on which the under- 

 taking was proposed by the late Lieut. Col. Colebrooke, by whom it 

 would have been performed in person, had he not been prevented by the 

 illness, which terminated in his death. 



On examining the authority, upon which the course of the Ganges 

 above Haridzvdr, has been* laid down in the geographical charts now in 

 use, it appeared to Lieut. Col. Colebrooke, that the authority was insuffi- 

 cient, and the information wholly unsatisfactory. The early course of 

 the river, as delineated in all the modern maps of Asia and India, is taken 

 from D'Anville's correction of the Lama's map, modified however, in 

 Rennell's consiruciion, upon information collected by the missionary 



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