18» ACCOUNT c^,^^^J9URNE5f xo xhe Sockc.. o. r.. 



is large and rapid, and liuk inferior in fize to the Jumn^ ; k xHts in a^ 

 ran<^e, we are told, fcha^ i'prings horn. SumcriA Farl^at, and we ,CT;Qifs i& 

 on our way to Gangeti). A ftecp afeent at fir ft up a bare hiil, ?ind after- 

 wards through a finedd forefl, and huge fragments of rock, brought us^ 

 to an open fpace, on the norihern fide of aridge juft facing Benderpuch'k, 

 From this point, we enjoyed a far more perfe<5l view of this 

 great mountain than we bave had, or , th:m was likely to 

 eccur again, and, though our clofe vicinity to it, and comparatively 

 low lituation, a61 unfavourably for difplaying the full height^ it Mh 

 appears prodigious = 



Two lofty and maffy peaks rife high above the reft^ deep in fnowj, 

 from which all the inferior ridges appear to take their rife; they are 

 conneiled low down by a fbarp neck ,v their South and S. Eo. 

 cxpoiure is the leaft fteep, ands bears a great depth of pure 

 unbroken fnow ; little or no rocitis leen, except at a few points in the 

 ridge conneding the peaks, where it i^ too fliarp and (leep for inow to 

 Ixy, and here it appears of a red colour; here and there, lofty preci- 

 pices are obfesryed in the fnow itfelf, where the lower parts have inelted. 

 and the uppeivmafies have givea way, iliding down to the ravines be- 

 loA^, leaving a. face of fnow feveral hundred feet high, and ihewing: 

 the depih cf that which has accumulated for ageSo 



The formation and Gourfe of the yalley we have jojirneyed thro', 

 and the dired-ion of the ridges, as they break off from this great cen- 

 tre, are from hence fiaely traceable^. From a point of our fight, as we 

 look towards the mountain, a ridge ilrikes off to the fouih and weft, 

 and ends nearly lu the jan6lioaof Bkhii^ct-GdcCk, with 

 this ridge is ciUed 6'4/^/-« ; to. the weft of this, in oar fr* 

 large mafs jua."? dov/n, called DumcLticcLridi,. and \ocj\% b. 

 and the Cailaru, a bafin whence runs a large ftfeuin called ; 



