Rivers, GANGES AND JUMNA. 
is the first snowbed we passed over on the 
Ganges, 
6 Path along right bank. The river a bed of 
foam falling from rock to rock. Five hundred 
yards further on, are the falls of Lohart Natg, 
where the river is move obstructed than in any 
part of its course and tears its Way, over enor 
mous masses of rock, which have fallen into it 
from the mural precipice which. bounds its left 
shore. This frightful granite cliff of solid rock, 
of above 800 feet high, appears to have beenune 
dermined at its foot by the stream, and the’ lower 
and middle part have fallen. into it, while’the “ 
summit overhangs the base and the river— 
The vast ruins of this fall extend for about a 
quarter of a miles the river has now forced its 
way through, and partly over the rocks, with a 
noise and impétuosity, we thought could not 
be surpassed, but on our return in J une, when ‘ 
thie Ganges. -was doubled in depth, the scene, 
was still grander. . qt then just covered the tops 
of the rocks, and one of the falls of ; the whole 
stream, we estimated at 25 feet per pendicular, 
and below it were more, close to each other of 
little less height. The scene is full of sublimi- 
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