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distance, but they are exceedingly filthy within, and full of vermin. The 
walls are composed of long cedar beams and stone in alternate eee 
the ends of. the beams meet at the corners, where they are boited together 
by wooden pins, Houses of this. construction are said to last for several. 
ages, for the Deodar or Cailon pine, which I suppose to be the cedar of 
Lebonon* is the largest, most noble and. durable of all trees.. 
‘Tae situation of this village on.the east side of a. mountain, the summit 
of. which is covered. with snow, and the foot washed by the Bha giratht is 
very pleasant. It commands a noble view of the. Sre, Canta, and other 
adjoining, peaks of the Humdlaya. on. which the snow. for ever rests, 
Snow alsoremains until. the rains on.all the mountains of the second order, 
which are visible:hence, both up and, down. the river. Many cascades 
are formed by the melting of the snows on: the. foot of the surrounding 
mountains: One in: particular descends in repeated falls of several hun- 
dred. feet each, from. the summit of a aries across the river and joins 
it near Bathert. 
Tre azimuth of the Srv Canta peak (determined from. the elongation 
af the pole star) is 50 49: 29. E. and its altitude 9 1435. tis need- 
less here to een the observations of azimuth. and altitudes of the other 
peaks seen hence and at other places on the route. In the following 
account.of my progress up the river, I have put down such remarks as 
occurred at the time, and they were written on the spot, and are here in- 
* It is the pinus Deodara.of Roxzsurcnu; the Dévaddru of Sunscrit writers. H. H. W. 
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