176 ACCOUNT of a JOURNEY to the Sources op this 



vered with a variety of foreO; fcenery, and fpotced with fields. Further 

 up they frown and clofe, and are of darker-hue beyond, and above 

 all Jamnotri towers above the cloads.. 



A ROCKY, tangled and unfrequented path brought us to a further 

 ghat orpafs, where information was given, that a valley of con fide r able- 

 magnitude lay to our left, ^retching from the Jumna to the weftward^ 

 and in hopes of feeing fo unufual a thing in thefe rugged hills, we 

 kfc the road to make the trial. We were however difappointed upon 

 reaching the ridge, whence it was^ thought it might be fef n, nothing 

 appeared, fave t' e lower part of a ravine entirely of the farr.e naiure 

 as the reft of the country, and. n'hich has here the name of SaiUGarU 

 Ci-Gad%* Above it is called Rama Serai, and 1 obtained Ouly tha 

 following particulars defcriptive of the place, . 



The old and. ruined fortrefs called Sircot, is fituated on a high TWa-^,.. 

 of the fame name, at the end of the lofty range Cedar-Canta, which 

 ftretches down from one fnoulder oi Bender PucKh, tv^o oi t\\ve.Q cos 

 further up in this mountain ; the ftream, Bama, has its fburce at a fpot 

 CdiWed She alu, and is joined by feveral others from the fides of this a« 

 well as from Sircot, and from the range which forms the other fide of 

 the vally, called Renai-Ci Dhar. Jull at the- end of this laft m-entioned 

 range,:which was in view from the point we flood on, the valley of 

 Mama Serai commences, and runs up to Sircot for a diilance of from 

 ^ to 7 cos, probably about 9 miles 1 the direction, judging from, that 

 of the mountains, and pofition of the poinds we fee, along with thesr 

 formation given, may be nearly N. E. and S. W. The breadth. from. 

 I mile to 2 1, and it is level throughout. 



Formerly this valley, which contains one fhat or divifion, was well; 



cultivated, and contained many populous villages ; now likQ the refl. o£ 



