'Mn ACCO^0NT ^OF A JOUENEY to rwn So-urce's of the 



^ .fervaded with fliining particles, and -€011111100 in all rivuktsat home, 

 with feveral lefs remarkable forts, lay in varying quantities all around. 

 I think alfoIiawtbHtcomrmon fort called whin ftome, but in no great 

 quantity. During the fliort opportuniues afforded me by partial open- 

 ings in the fog, I took particular noie of the neareft and highea cliffs irn 

 mew, aod.as far as the glafs could deterrmoe or.bs trufted^ they con- 

 fifl of the fame kinds of rock as thcfe found in the route we have gone 

 over to-day, and juft now defcribed ; the colour, theibapeand fracture, 

 is fimilar : white, red, reddiffi yellow, black and blue^ at times in ftra» 

 ta, at times m ihapelefs maffes ; but the primary formation of the 

 hills is always il ratified ; the angle of elevation^ and the diredion of 

 thefe ffrataj is ever the fame, 



'The rid-ge in which is Banfuru Ghat, k continuous with Banfuru-- 

 d'-D/^ir, Which Iweeps down to the fouthward in feveral peaks from 

 Sumeru Parbatj and is thus conne0ed with Bender-puch'h ; beyond the 

 ■ghat to the fouthward, it rifes into feveral high peaks^ and is loft in 

 Bacri-ci'Dhdr, Panda Rajfu, &.c. The weftern fide is that which we 

 afcended, the eallern looks into a iimilar bafon to that we have Daff« 

 eds from the fnow of which Banfuru'Ci-Gdd'h flov/s to the Bhdgiraf hi s 

 it is fingular that on the eaftern fide there is more foil, though not 

 more vegetation than on the weft, in fpite of the a^lion of ihe foovy 

 ■which it might be prefumed annually wearing the mountaia away^ 

 would leave little on its fide but bare rock. 



From this ghat the road wound along the mountain brow; with 

 many deep mdenting and irregularities, but with little general defcent^ 

 if any, and was accordingly laborious, paffing over much fnow, and 

 Hioift .ilippery rock, till we reached a pafs called Clihdyd-cd-Cdntd. 



£(4'Aav^-c<i-C'i7i;^ is the point at which the true defcent commences^ 



.audi believe is iitde inferior in hd^hth to Bdnfuru cd-Ghat i it m 



