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■ Reaching a Dcint called Gurmii-cd- G'hat, v^e dtfcend into CurmU 

 ^€iGGd'h which has its rife by two Tources in Mdla-d-Tiba, and joins 

 the Bhim-'cUGdd-h about one mile below, to the right. A weary afcent 

 and unpleafant path along the hill face, carried us to a point just above 



Bhim-ci Gdd'h, into the bed <5f v/hich v/e defcended ; along a hill 

 .€aee, covered with fern, the lower part of which was fcantily cloathed 

 with ihag^ birch ; from the time v?e left SunapaU-'ci'Dkar, v/e were 

 ijeyoFid the region where \wooA can groWj and it is only in the lowen- 

 vparts of the valley, juft on the nullah's banks, thstwe again difcovered 

 ir. re-appearing in this thin fiunted birch ; we have palled much fno^vV 

 (in the clefts and hollo ws, though tlie road has not a-^lually led over it, 



Tbe Bhim-d'Gad'hhtxQ, is larger than the Jumna ^t Qurfali, but it 

 bas every appearance of having been temporarily fwelled by a fall of 

 rain which has been heavy to- day in the mountains ; it is vtiy mudd}^, 

 and extremely rapid, 



A LL the hills here feem abrupt to the foutb, snd point their flrat^ 

 -in directions between S. W. ao, and S. E. 20- inclined to the plane of 



ces I even r»ins horns have 'heir plac. One f'jrt wc obferved were very remarkable ; wirn of a mid- 

 ling fiz'j ''"■cy are at leaft 3 feet lo'.,g, ihcy grow near each oiherat tlteir bafe, and fa'l backwards with i-" 

 bold fcinicite-il.ir curve and diverging from each niher gradually J on the upper curved fide there arc Eitio 

 CBlationFj from 2 lo 3 inches diftant from each other, ihe whole wa? from the bife to the top. 

 • The native* f'y, thit thefe hoins are the produce of an animal partaking of the a[>psarance both of the 

 deer ai\d the goat, bat mrrre particularly re^'emblinw ihe larter 5 that it is large, ai may b: inferred from his 

 Iiorns, and that it ia only found in the moft.remote, inacceffible, and coldeft parts cf the l.iils ; that in the 

 depth of winter, wlien tile very vallies are cotf«red with fiow, whitli indeed rftnairs on them for r or 6 

 mciiihS| this animal comes dawn aimofi to the very villages, v/ith herds of other fptcies ; it returns as the 

 fnow meits, to its faftneffes, and about this fcafon is ftldom feen. The naiiv.es call it * Burrl ; its^lkin is fur- 

 nifhed cuiioufly with a iliick foft elaaick h lir, and forms a cotnfoitablc bed to lie 01. Th-y are accunom- 

 «:d to place its hotnj not only in tfmplts, but on the graves of fuch as weie in thfir lives cfleemed holy <• 

 and a|>|>ear to attach to them fome myfteiious charm. We found one pair on our route, which had b-ea 

 placed at ihc fpot where a man had pcnfh-d in the fnow ; they were quite deftr^yed by the cfFetfl of wea. • 

 iher. 



* Rirnl, f-c ^"olRCKo^•T's tour, A. li, Vcl, \z:h ; there can be little doub?, but it is the drgali'^ 



