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29tb. Leaving our t^nts, Jampuans^ beds, and heavy baggage, at 

 this place, under a small guard of Sepdhis^ we commenced our march 5 

 and ten minutes walk brought U5 to a descent leading to the bed of 

 the Bhdgirat'ht. Here the road lay over immense stones and rocks^ 

 the passage of which was not only fatiguing but dangerous ; for they 

 were heaped in such loose disordered pilies, that the utmost caution 

 was required in the footing. In some places, httle drippling streams, 

 falling from the mountains, passed over the rocky bank, rendering the 

 path very slippery. Fifty minutes over this road brought us to a steep 

 bank, which we ascended, and halted, to recover ourselves a little 

 from the fatigue we had already experienced. For fifteen minutes, we 

 proceeded along the banks, in a gradual rise, when we regained the bed, 

 by a very steep and almost perpendicular descent, of two hundred and fifty, 

 or three hundred feet. Here we met with the same obstructions as be- 

 fore ; and we pursued our way over the rocky surface, for thirty-five 

 minutes, when we again ascended, and receding, from the Bhdgirat'hi, in- 

 clined a little more to the W. In twenty minutes we arrived at the Su'dr 

 JsTadl by a very steep descent. This is a rapid stream, about thirty 

 feet broad, and over it is a narrow Sajigha, with a platform made of 

 small fascines. 



Here we were again obliged to halt, for the purpose of gaining suffi- 

 cient strength to encounter the ascent which lay before us. It was by a 

 very narrow dangerous path, in some places excavated from the rock, 

 while a projedling point above obliged a person to stoop as he passed 

 along, and threatened to precipitate him to the bottom. Forty-five 

 minutes, in this laborious ascent, brought us to the summit, whence we 

 saw a large village called Sdlang, about mid-way up to the hill, on tne 



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