SURTEY OF THE OAMGEa M9 



ferings; ofs th^ ciiriocis, or religioAis visitaj^, Thts aipj^arenrt inattentkw, 

 h-Qwewerv roay praca.ed fram its niot being' su plaice hetdisi great Vftnerati^n; ; 

 for, althowgli, in point of raagnitu)de,. thda Fraydga may be considered 

 ne.M tQ Dev^raydga ; mo particuilar ahlutioias are here- enjoined by th6 

 Sdstras ; and the^ only reason which occuirs for the: omissioni is, that there 

 is no convenient place for bathing, on account of' the^ rapidity of the two 

 curreMsi Along" tlie banks of t\\Q B-auii isjontf; o-^ the high roads iea^ 

 ding- to B.utdn\ YicovcL hence, we began tcrascendithe sc^p^ ori the 

 M. bank: of the AlacMiandd ; ( we shall' continue tb cdi k^ by this name 

 to prevent confusion.) The. raoim tains, onjeach side, rise to a stupehd* 

 ous height, and nearly meet at their base, lestving only a passage of forty 

 .or fifty feet for the current of water:- ' •> 



The bed of the river is obstructed by large masses of rock. At eight 

 o'clock we crossed at the foot of a cascade, falling; from the height of 

 •ninety or a hundred feet ; whence it rolls, over large fragments, into the 

 river. Hence, winding: between ihe two chains of mountains, with the 

 river considerably, below us, we came, in fifteen minutes, to a Sangha, 

 thrown across the Alacanandd. This bridge was about four feet broad, 

 (Composed of three small fir spars, with planks across, and supported by a 

 rock, on each bank, elevated a hundred and thirty or. a hundred and fifty 

 feet above the water. Hence we ascended, for ten minutes, and proceed- 

 ed along the slope, at a greater or less elevation, till lo A. M. when there 

 was a steep descent, for eight minutes, which brought us to a pa;th^ cut 

 in'the solid rock. Where the side Was perpendicularly scarped, to a con>- 

 siderable height, an- artificial bank, and flight of steps, were raised with 

 stones, to the level of the road ; and, in some places, where tiie rocks 

 pTojootedi, the communication was coatajtoKi' by planks, from oiae. point! to 



