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Journal of a Survey to the Heads of the Rivers, Gances 
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By Cartan J, A. HODGSON, 10rxu Recor. N. I. 
A\S Thave had it in my power toexplore and survey the course of the 
Ganges within the Hima laya mountains, to a considerable distance beyond 
Gangautri, and to the place where: its head is concealed by masses of 
snow which never melt, I hope, that an account of my journey may be 
acceptable to the Asiatic Society. I must premise that, as Captain Raper’s 
account of Captain Weep’s survey in 1808, has already appeared in 
the Xith Volume of the Researches, I have nothing to add to that 
officer’s able and faithful description of the mountainous country, passed 
through in the route of the survey from the Din Valley to Cajani, near 
Rettal, where the survey towards Gangautri was discontinued in conse= 
quence of the serious obstacles which impeded it. TI shall therefore only 
give an account of the course of the river above the village of Rezéal, 
where I halted to make arrangements for my progress through the rugged 
regions before me, in which I found I had no chance of getting any 
