B10 mm'E.Y 0-F THE ©AN^ES, 



The mountains, on this day's route,^ were clothed with forests/ of 

 0^1^ ; while their summits were covered with a species of the fir w,hkh thys 

 natiMescall Realla,. A few. of this kind were growing near the roadL 

 The leaves are about two, ajid half inches long, produced all round the 

 twigs, whiphhang pendant from the branches, andfoj: want of a. bota- 

 nicaj^ter-ni, we might distinguish it by the name of the weeping>^%.r. At 

 a village called: Sillang, belonging to Bhadrmd.t'h„ the whole scarp of 

 the mountain, from, the, base to nearly the summit, was laid, out, in fields 

 of difFerei7t sorts of grain. The crops, of whe^t and barley^ were; luxu? 

 riantly rich, jusfeready for the sicklei 



28th. Therms 59. Jilfarched to Panc'heser, a village containing twenty 

 4?r thirty houses, and having a neat temple, sacred to Vishnu. Lat. N. 30*1 



M the commencement of this day's route, we passed Vishn'upraydga, 

 formed by the jund^ibn of the Alacanandd with a river called DauH or 

 Leti, which comes from the S. E, and is more considerable than the 

 former, being aboiil: thirty-five or forty yards in breadth, and flowing 

 with a rapid current^ over a very strong bed« Its banks are steep and 

 rocky; and the passage of the river is effe6led by a platform Sangha^ 

 aboiit five feet broad , and extending from shore to shore. The Alaca-- 

 nandd, above this confluence, is called Vish?i'u Gangd, from its flowing 

 near the feet of Veshinu at B'hadn-Jsrat'k. It comes from the north. 

 Its breadth is twenty-live or thirty yards^ and its stream is rapid. 



Having crossed, the bridgej we ascended a bank of rock, above which 

 Is: the, village of Visbnupraydg a,. contsdmng tws>; or three houses, with a 

 smjall Mafha, th,e doors of which were, shut, and no needy Brdlimen or 

 Fakir was in attendance^ to do the honors, of: thevtemples, or, receive the of-^ 



