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and barley were by the road side, and tke hills were covered with oak 

 and wahmt trees, 



7th. Mah^ched to DMnga. l?it. 30° 26' 52'' N. Thermometer 61. 



We ascended the Gudlara g'hdt, through zn extensive forest of walnut, 

 oak and Bdrans, and from the summit beheld a chain of the snowy 

 •mountains, extending from N. 24^ 12' "W, to N. v"" 40' E. vvhieh last v/aa 

 pointed out as the direction of Jamaiitn. The ascent was tolerably 

 gradual, but the descent steep and difficult. 



8th. Marched to DeulL Therm. 57. 



On this day's march, we crossed the Biilang river, which is the most 

 considerable stream we have met with, excepting the Bhdgirathi, and is 

 considered sacred by the hill people, v/ho saluted it in the usual terms of 

 respe6L Its source is in a mountain, about two day's journey from this 

 place, in an E. N. E, diredtion, and it falls into the Ehdgirat'hi about five 

 miles to the S. W. near a village called Tirhi, The breadth of the cur- 

 rent, at this season, Is about sixty or seventy feet; and over it is a rops 

 bridge, suspended on one side to a jutting craggy point of rock, thirty or 

 forty feet above the water, and on the opposite bank to the branches of 

 a very large Semel or cotton tree* The ascent to it is by a narrow path, 

 cut in the rock, which leads to the entrance of the bridge ; and, on the 

 opposite side, the descent is by a perpendicular ladder, placed at the edgQ 

 of the stream. The Jhuld is not in such good repair as the one crossed 

 at Joswdra; but the pas's age of it did not appear so formidable, as the 

 water flows below with a smooth even surface, noit occasioning that 

 giddiness which the rapidity of the Bhdgirat'ln tended to create. 



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