JUMNA AND-,BHAGIRAT*HI RIVERS, i'SI- 



tliem ; he is a fine looking man, far luperior in appearance to the peO" 

 pie of the hills ; who, in fadt, pay him much' refped;, and feem quite 

 devoted to him» 



"We afcended the end of Dhulu Dhar^ and c roiled it, and reached 

 the banks of Bediar^Gad'h, a large rapid li;ream, in fize nearly equal ■ 

 to the Girr'i ; which has its rife in a -high peak, called Bachuncha ; we 

 oroffed it on a very ugly bridge, called 5;^^///'r^'5'<3?io'i9, confiding of 

 two pine-trees' of no very large fize, thrown over a deep chafm, in 

 which, far below, the river runs with great violence^ and which being 

 llippery> gave but uncertain footing ; at the top of a^ fhort rocky af- 

 cent above this bridge,.we reached the village Nagwj'n, which is of ref-- 

 peftable fize, and which gives name to a fhat or divifion ; here is one 

 of GoviND B'hisht's refidences ; it was once a populous and tolerably 

 cultivated divifion ; but moft of its villages are now m ruins r five are 

 Hill inhabited be fides i'felf — PalUf Skealwd, Curfala, Tkan^ and Pkulddi%- 



The oppofite fide of the river is defolate and uncultivated, though 

 the ruins of feveral villages are perceptible. The Patrain Nukaky nczr^ - 

 ly oppofite, contains much level land, all now wafte. 



Just oppofite tht mcuth of Bediar-G a d%; there is a bridge acrofsv^ 

 the Jumna, and on the other fide, in a rock at the foot of the hih, in 

 the bed of the river, is (hewn a fpring of water, which they fay is o&^ 

 the waters cf the Bkdgiral^hi, and of which the following tale is told i 



There yet exifts near this a place of worfhip facred to Mahii Deo, in 

 which, in the old time, a Brahmin of great fandity miniftered. This 

 holy perfon every day went to the Bhagirat'hi, faid to be a full day's 

 jqurney from hence, to perform his ablutions in its facred Itrcini; till 



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