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ACCOUNT ©F A JOURNEY to the Sources ©f tks 



Just s^hout Lak.kajuru the Bhagirat'hi began to affame fomcwhat 

 mcjre of the chara6ler of a great river, fpreading out into a wider chan- 

 siel, yet Hili retaining much of the impetuofi'y of the mountain torrent, 

 and it fweeps in numerous windings, through this fine valley which is 

 from 3 to 4 furlongs broad, and confifls chiefly of table land, probably 

 the bed it once ran in, and is here and there finely fwell< d into rifes ; all 

 is cultivable, and evidently has once been under tillage, and remains 

 of villages in various places evince a once more numerous population; 

 all nqw is walle, but green and fmooth. 



Two or three miles from BarahiHi, we crofifed the Rat'aor gdd'h 

 where we fufFcred coniiderable detention, while a fempor<:ry biidje 

 was thrown over « fomewhat further on, fcramblmg alons: the nvei" (idej, 

 wt' fcarhed a fma ler ilreami'i///^(?^/-^"a//i5 which we forded uiih much 

 diihculty, for it was deep and ilrong. This nullah ends the long reach 

 and v4i<:y,and we paliVd two or three bad (leps, where the banks clofe 

 fo- a ihart fpice, before entering on another, about 2 mi.'es long, in the 

 middle of which the village Ukimda, is fituated, on a rock overhang- 

 ing the wa'er, about 7 miles from B'jrahdt^ The river flo\TS now in 

 a uniform courfejtill it is joined at rhe bottom of the reach by Lhundn- 

 gd(Ph, a large flream which flows through a valley apparenily rich in 

 cultivation. . The oppofite fide of the river forms psrt of Dhunari put" 

 gunnabj and there is much rice and tillage all around. 



At Dhunda village we left the river and ^fcended the hill behind it, 

 iiril by a gradual eafy pathg along ledges of cul'.ivaion, till we turned 

 the edge of the bill, when a fucceflionof pretty flMrp afcents and def- 

 cents through Hr covered hills, carried us to the village of Petdrdt our 



Slight's ilsge. , 



Thb: village of Pddrd is not much better calculated to sccnmmodate 

 tFaV^Heis, ihan ihole we have lately palfed through, poor and duty ; 



