NT OF A JOURNEY tto the Sources of thb 



appointed out hopes. We left our lofty Qatioo, and by a rough' Aeep 

 dticent reached the village of Sue hi,* which is fuuated near the fcot 

 cof a hollow that runs down from Canda ci-Dhdr, and nearly a mile 

 from the Bkdgirat'M ; we have palTed through feme ftraggling cultiva- 

 -fionj but the country has much the air of negled and depopulation. 

 Some fine old Vv^alnut trees, and many apricot and other fruit treeSa fi7.ew 

 •that the village once was large and thnvmcc 



'The -liver from hence appears nearly as large as the Sd'ej^ when ws 

 firll law it at RamJyur ; bQdrs banks are far wilder than any thino- we 

 ■have yet feen. The ciiafm in which it rol's is on. a much Lrger fcile, 

 sad the favage joughnefs of its mountamous .precipices kec-ps pace 

 with their increafe in fize. Bire rock is much more predominant, and 

 wood, every where thinly fcatteredj flill more fparingly fprinkles the 

 XQcky pinnsclea, Yvhichibrm-but-one pxecipice fjom their, peak to their 

 bafe ; fuchis the appearance of ihe river bed viewed downwards from 

 Sue hi, in a Une, but iittie to, the wed of fouth^ till fhut m by clofmg 

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.. T^EAYiiiG the village, we crofTedihe end of , a ridg,e a little above it, 

 and defcended to the river iidej at the lower pait-of an openmg in its 

 ■ted, of a finguJar nature ,• it meandeis for more dian two miles in a flat 

 Ihringly fpace, which may vary in breadth from 'one to fix furlongs 

 broad. Juft above this fpace, on the weft or right bank of the river 

 tBree villages a-re fituated on a ilope, fomewhat lefs inchned than the 

 Curroiinding hills, and on which tbere are many fields of wheat. Sec. ' 

 frecijDkes, defcend on the oppoiite fide quite down . to the . river; at 

 the lower end of this (hingly fpace, there is a fiiVht wooden brid'^e 

 ;Mder whi!^h the live.r.now agam contraded^ runs with great, violence. 

 Civolling this, cfie road l;iy along the >oM:oin oi^'the^i^recipice^ where 



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