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wliitert fbme pieces are purely foj others fpotted, with jet like particles i 

 -others withjong bLKkfbars, .irregularly erofTing each other i fome with 

 mica in a grey bed ; fo.nie with dark black or blue veins, fome {i\gb\\f 

 ltd, fome yeilo Willi, and other fpecimens grey. In the river bed^ 

 from Suc'fii :o Burdiz it was found in large rounded irregular malleSp 

 but from that village to Gangotri, the whole raafs .of (he mountains 

 ieems to be compofed of h, and the bed of the river from a rnile or 

 twohelow likairav^kafi IS formed m a folid mafs tli^fftagh which ars 

 ■ irregular troagh has been ;kolldwed by the continual a6lion ofth^ 

 'fvater, jufl brbad eaough for the dream to ruih in a fucCfclTioa of falls 

 and rapids. Its waters are qiiiteioaded wiith a'tju^ntity of white fhin- 

 ing fand, which doubtlefs is produced by the attrition of the {lories 

 sFolled along this channel, and their gradual arid confiant aQion on the 

 iides and bottom of th.is rock. 



The night we arrived, fatigue wasTufficient to prevent much Far- 

 ther exertion, and combined with cold to fufpend the intentions even' 

 4)f the pious, and ani^ht's red under the roof of one of the Dharam 

 :Sa!aj,, was very acceptable. 



The wMe of the next day (the 20th July,) was '©coupled by the 

 people in bathing in i^he holy dream, and the worthy pundit made a 

 confiderabSe harveft from the zeal of the party 1 indeed, it was a mat- 

 ter of ferious confequencejcmd great joy to every one that had thus 

 . happily reached a place of fuch faper-enrJnent fanSity, where, in faQ, 

 ■ the aft of ablution- is fuppofed to clean fe froni., every iin, heretofore 

 rcommitted ; while the fuppofed difficulty of -reaching it is fo great, 

 that few but profv^flTionil devotees ever attempt the pilgrimage. It is, 

 we find, cudomary for thofe who have loft: their father or mother, 

 to fubmitto the jp^r^^tionof liiaving, and the changes this produced 



