m ACCOUNT OP A JOURNEY to the Sources cf the 



great ag;e rendered this exercife impoffible, when he prayed that fome 

 fEncans. might be afforded him of continuing this act of devotion; his 

 j|)rayer was beards and he was defired to drop his handkerchief in the 

 Bhagirat'hij and whereever that fhould appear on the Juvina banks, 

 there to waih in fall confidence of that, being Qlxht waters ©f the. holy 

 ;ilrcain» 



'The Brahmin is gone^ but the waters retain their fan^ity in the 

 f€ftimati'On of the country, which confidently believes they are the ef- 

 •le£l of a miracle J a miracle ingenuouQy and fuccefsfuUy contrived, to 

 continue to lazinefsor inability j.the odour of fandity derived from pen- 

 ance, without its pains.. 



f ROM NagwcLT w€ afcended at times xapidly, at times gently, through 

 thin fir-wood ; and this gendy rifing country quite wade, but once cul- 

 iivared, and all capablc.of being fo^ to ihe village. of Shcalwa, much gone 

 ,to decay* 



Crossing the C^'/^^/<i valley,in whichjs.the village of tli^t name, wc 

 Climbed a flcep afcent to the gorge of a pafs^ called Canda-ca G'hat, in a 

 ridge continuous dome from a high peak, named Tuna/, From this 

 point, a water-fall below a mafs of fnow in the Benderpiidik mountain, 

 is very plainly feen, which we are informed is Jummtri i it did jiat 

 appear more than ^ long day's journey fropi ugo 



Through a variou? wood of oaks, firs, rhododendron, Scc> ailong the 

 face of the h>U, high above the river, we reached the point where cona- 

 luences our defcent to F^'lia-Gad'h, which forms the outlet to the waters, 

 of one of the mofl terrifick and gloomy vallevs I have ever feen. The 

 lofty peak Bachu'ncha. ftretches a rugged ridge to the fouthward which 

 |oins Tunal, (the lower part of whi^h ;tve crolfed^) and by thefe lid^e? 



