too ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY to the Sources of thb 



lillies of every colour and fpecies were in great prpFufion. Among. 



other ilirobs, to-day we remarked the common juniper, cafily, reco^- 

 Bifed by its berries and fmelL 



July 17.— Tus rnorning was cold and foggy; by, a little after day .Itahtj,' 

 we were in motion, and continuiDg our coorfe to the very top of the glen,., 

 croffed Cmal-ci-Gad'h, juft as- it leaves the bofosi) of fnowbelow Bender^ 

 jfmk7i.j upon a bridge of ice; hence crossing the point formed .by the 

 junftion of the swo water courfeSj we paffed many of the frnali fcreaniR 

 Iha.t form this eaPiemmoft; branch of the Bhm a-<?«^'4 andcom^menced. 

 a very difficult afcent along the principal one which falls here frpsi: a. 

 l^rge mafs.of fnow and continues to run under it;, this wa,s-;.-a5i.,ex-ceed,^, 

 ingly. painful, part of. our road, as the afcent was very, fteep. and -flipper v. 

 The ground was here bare and the grafi ftunted, yet there were ftiii: 

 plenty of flowers 5 a little further on^. vegetation decreafes 

 ll|Il more I hardly aiiy thing being [ccn, where the ground 

 is bare ©f fnow,. fave a fcanty green flime and. brown mofs,, . 

 like: that found on .barren daiii p., grounds-,, A bafon. or hollow was 

 here formed' in the mountain of faow, and the ruins of &e' peakf- 

 around, heaped ob. each olber. It was exceedingly Goidj and, :m 

 moderate warmth even, was only preferved by the toilfome exercife--^ 

 of climbing thefe heighths. Many of the cooleysj. and feveral; 

 of the fepoys, boih Gork'ha. and Mewati now^ beg.an. to lag, and; 

 were hardly able to proceed^, and every., one complained of the 

 poifond wind. I now began to iufpefl, that this fuppoled- poifpn was- 

 nothing more than .the effe<^-j which the. rarefied ftate, of the air,, from 

 the- great keighth. we, have reach-ed, has on. the lungSj and this fup° , 

 poiition I was led to fracne from my own fenlations.; I could. hardly 

 command ftrength. enough to climb the deep rocky path, and expcnen-. 

 ced m breathing much difficulty and oppreffioa, as if there were an in- 

 iufficiency of air,. I do not think, we could., long. have borne it, had. 



