• MB ACCOUNT ow a JOURNEY *d the Sourcss o» ths 



A STSEF and hot afccnt led us by the mifcrable village of GSrona, 

 from whence the path lay on «hc left hand hill fide to a rough wooded 

 defccnt, and the bed of a dry nullah ; hence a very fteep zigzag af. 

 cent brought.us to the top of a heighth whence we enjoy an extenfiv.^ 

 ^ieWs and trace the whole valley we have croffed, from its rife in Dhd" 

 w^m//, nearly to its debouche at a village called Gerk^ by the Jumna, 

 where it has changed its name, from the 4gl^hs,f to the Pdlia-Gdd!h. 

 The range of Marma^ci-D'hdr forms the northern boundary of this 

 large valley, fetching from Jount^ and its hills, in the weftward, by 

 Co^^ in the eaflward, andfornaing the Seuri and Dhmaui-ci-DliarSi 

 -and {Iretching to the Bhagirat'hi ^ this lon,^ range, in its courfe gives off 

 'Piany fubordinate D'hars^ which form valleys^ that iind a general outiel: 

 |o the Jy^mna through the Aglofia-Gdd'A, 



;From this flation we ^ept along the face of the hill, for abotst a n\'ie^ 

 .:where turning Iharp to the left a fhort but rough defcent brought us to 

 the village Belu; this is a fmall and poor place, but as there are no 

 other reding places between it, and Ndgel in the Dsyrak Dun, faid to 

 be a dillance of 12 miles, we were forced to content ourfelves with re- 

 maining for the night, and probably it was as well to give our weary 

 people fome extraordinary reft, as the march for the next day, to D<5?- 

 \rah^ was defcribed as a long and fatiguing one, 



July ■20.-^'^ E rofe early and got on foot by fix, to encounter our day ')$ < 

 Jatigues. Thb road wound along the left hand fidi of the hill on arocky 

 pjith formed entirely of lime Clone, to the head of a valley one fide of 

 ^which is formed by the Sowachola'Ci'Tiba ; the place is called Mugra : it 

 .is a dark, gloomy, wooded ravine, and in it there is a perennial fpring of 

 remarkable Goldnefs: it is one and half miles from Belu, From this 

 place, a ftiarp afcent brought us to a poijit in the crefl of Sowachofa- 



