JUMNA iND BHAGrRATHr ETTER9. ^2? 



•jnconfiderable.^ It mud then be allowed that the differen're of altitude 

 indicated by the fe circumftances is a flrong prefumptive proof that 



tht Bhdgirat'ki Aqcs -not- eouiQ ibmugh the Inowy range, biit rifes iu 



themj . 



If it does not come through the HzWV^j^/its co'urfe cannot be far 

 from hence. The fnowyp'caks extend to no great breadth ; they ge-' 

 neraily confiliof one lofty ridge cut into high peaks and deep ravines, 

 and proje^^feveral -equally irregufer ridges on either fide- to war ds^' the 

 north. eaft and fouth weft; thefe inferiour ridges are never equal ia' 

 heighfh- to the parent mountain, but neverthelefs ■ at times fboot up? 

 jn&ffes.of great ..magnitude, whence in their turn diverg^e other mouni<* 

 tain's fehat.eitheE^themieives or by their .-branches -reach the plain.. 



The breadth of the mountain6!as- re"gio.n may- probably occupy ' sf 

 fpa.ce of from eighty to one hundred miles : the grounds for fuppo«' 

 ;fingih.!s ta b-i the ex ent of ?hat:fp3cej' are not only our own obferva-- 

 tion, but th,e in^ormalron'we have received ficrn di^ercnt:aad; inteili^ 

 g^nt pei foES, K-1 'ive o . ' ^ 'hroiigh the paff s * i bus reafoning 

 from-probalilities^-oblcrvaupn &■ d.-iu(oum\t\on, J^'ui'^a. HirmU -i^^vit 

 leaft removed to th<- center oft e Inowy range,, and it is ' 

 elude. that ^he 1 nd, mountdnous:and cLv^ted as it .is, rah' r a .1, ti- ■ . 

 rifes to the north and north, eaft of thiiaiiountain. This, is confirmed.. 

 by the pundir, and thofe' zemindars who have been acc.uflomed to view 

 the" country from .lofty ficuations ,on- either fide of the-glen of the - 

 B^agirafhL . No one feeme4 in the leafl .to doubt the fd6L, that:, the r 

 river had its rife in the. a forefaid hollow of fnow ; and forae we nt_ {^o 

 far as to affeft that, v/h^n climbing in fearch .of. flray ilieep, they ^fd- 

 feen the gkn of the river ending thus, anti C' uld difcern the deep ra- 



* In the Niti Man/i )i. fs, tUtx paffing Badarlkath which is aboat ih^ ceatet of cf^vadjp, chat \( li Uyi"^ 

 ibeii^ghell clcvittcd ff ot m tl.at loadi ibc \\'m ate r:acheU in ih:ce d jj. 



