ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY to the Sources of the 



a. conOdersble diftance; and, tha* ths fieepe^ and mod painful afcent 

 commences near Bhim ci Uddr ; between -i-vhich afcen-, and the place 

 we have novj reached, there is no foot where red, fheiier and firewood 

 lor a night could be obtained. Thus travellers muft remain the firft 

 jiight at Bhi'm ci-Uddr, as the two day's journies are far too laborious to be 

 performed in one ; and the feverity of the fecond, fully makes up for . 

 the eafe and iliortnefs of the firfl, both by the fieepnefi and diffi:alty 

 of the country, and the badnefs of the road, but above all by the arti- 

 ficral fatigue brought' on by the oppreffion of breail which we all feit 

 lb much. 



The vegetable produflions of to-dsy's march, though much of it 

 Was«auite bare of vegetation, were very various; two flawers particu^ 

 larly attraded attention ; one was called the Gugul and grew fo!iie= 

 what like the common flat thiftle, with leaves radiating from a center^ 

 like the reprefentation of a fun; in the center, was a flower level with 

 the flat leaves, much re fembling the bloHbm o-f a pine apple plants 

 This fiower is held in high religious veneration. The other confifled 

 of a llalk covered v\rith large and long leaves, fomewhat like thofe of a 

 prirorofe ; ending in a cup refembling that of a tulip, but which was 

 formed merely by a continuation of leaves of the fame fort ; whicli 

 clofed round the (lamina and piftiljformin!^ the petals of a very no- 

 ble flower. Thefe at thejr tufertion were greeniih, like the flalk and 

 lower leaves : but their upper ps^rts are bl^ck and yellow, and the cen-» 

 ter of the cap is of the fam:; cok>r, but far more vivid. The hill peo- 

 ple called it *5/>-w//j (-"iiz^n/^, becaufe, as the guide informed us, *'' it 

 was as the raja amon)^ flowers." We could obtain no explanation 

 of the terms, and therefore the application of the nine is- not intel- 

 ligible. 



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