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ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEX 



TO THE 



Soitrcts of' the Jumna and Bhagirathi Rivers^* 



.._:Bx JAMES B. ERASER.- 



Communicated hy the Most JVoble ^/ie President^ 



^\^N the S4th of June, my * brother having received the orders of Go- 

 vernment to proceed to Gerwhal, we left Seran.^ (the refidence of the-: 

 young Rajah of Bifehar) where for fome days we had remained in ex- 

 pectation ofinftrudioKs. — And croiling that portion of the root5 of t'^e 

 feowy mountains v/bence J Moral-Ca-Canda range arifes, and keeping 

 ourcourfe doAn through the valley of Sambracot, we reached the banks 

 of the river P^her, and encamped on the right bank, oppoiite to the fort 

 of Raingerhi where for fome days we were detained by the difficulty 

 of procuring carriage for our neceflary baggage, on the route to 

 Sirinagar, On the 5th of July, we left Raingerh^ and kept down- 



. ,* William Frafer, Fiift Affinant, Dtlhi Refidcncy. 



, + y^^a/; is fifoated in the glen ihrcugh which the river S'^//^ flwWsj about 3 miles above its ftreaniT . 

 apon the mountain fi ie. 



J Moral Ca CarJa \% a large and very noWe mountain which flretches in a cintinuous hut irregular range, 

 and under various names, from the fnowy mountains above Hempur and Stran, quite down to Irki. It is 

 an inif reding ranj;c, becaufe it is that which divi.ifs the waters of upper Hhidolian. AH thefe rifing from its 

 eiftcrii (Tde, fl wing through the Girri, Vnher^ Tonfe and Jumna, into th; Ganges and (he baj of Bea^a^ 

 ivhJlc thofc from ihe wcfisrc afp.-tft, lun by ihe Sfi^^J aad /W*;, into ihe Irnliaa ocean. 



