I9i ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY to the Sources op ths 



red colour. They feem admirably calculated to be formed into foU 

 diers for a hilly region. Here and there traces may bedeteded of the 

 Tartar features, the fmall eye, high cheekbones and meagre muflachios^^ 

 but they are not fufficiently prevalent to give rife to the idei of any 

 confiderable intercourfe or intermixture. The language is dill Bin-' 

 dujlani, and though flill very bad, it is rather more intelligible than 

 that generally heard in Bifeher, 



On making enquiry refpe6ling the diftancefrom this place to Juvi' 

 notri, the nature of the road, and the pofTibility of pafTmg the night 

 there, we were informed, that it is fix cos, of very bad and rough 

 road in the river bed ; but that there is another route confiderably 

 longer with a fevere afcent, which is fometimes ufed, when the river 

 istoo high to pafs; but there is no place to pafs the night in. We 

 however believed the difficulties as ufual exaggerated, and determined 



it. 



to carry the neceffaries fufficient to enable us to remain a night, as i 

 was exceedingly anxious to attempt reaching at all events fome elevat- 

 ed fpot on the mountain, both to judge of its Itructure, and to make 

 obfervations from. 



The morning was exceflively cold: the heighths were clear, but clouds 

 hung all around on the lower regions. Leaving every muffulman fe- 

 poy, the whole of the hindus fet out on this pious errand ; and the 

 Jumnotrl pandit^ with fome other brahmins, led the way : we paffed 

 the backward and green corn land, and entered Jumna's bed ; 

 the flream here is not large, but very rapid; we crofs it 

 en a ftick, and the path here becomes dangerous and difiicnlL 

 in fa6l there is no track ; but we proceededm the bed ^': 

 llream, croffing and re-croffing it as the lofty ove ., ^^g 

 rocks on either fide jutted into it and alternately oppofed our "* -Cro 



