Rivers, GANGES AND JUMNA; 79 
¥6 Bad and rough, here cross the Ganges on a 
Sangha, about 45 feet above the stream, 
breadth of the roaring stream below 17 paces, 
or 42 feet. The bridge about 21 feet wide, ill 
secured and unsteady, it extends from one 
jarge rock to another. ‘The current extremely 
violent, and the fall of the river great,...... 9 1270 9 
¥7 A& Torrent from the Swetz mountain falls in here, 
at this Sangha, on return, barometer 22in, 
G0. thermometers 52.00 06.625 snes cece ses: 
18 Long ascent to Suct, a decaying village cf} 
9 houses, of which 3 only. are inhabited. It 
is on the Westside of a mountain, and sur- 
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rounded: on all sides, by the Himdlya rocky - 5000 5 
precipices, crowned with snow. The river 
is about 1,000 feet below, foaming.in a con- | - 
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fined channel, DER DURE ES eE OSE WEE Re Oe 
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As to the march, it was very long and laborious, we performed it in 
7 hours, propably 1 of it was hand and foot road. The rest except 
the two places of flat mentioned above as usual, a succession of long 
strides or little careful steps from one broken crag to another. The three 
Sanghas-over the river, having been lately repaired are not dangerous, but 
too high, narrow, and elastic, to be pleasant to cross;:. the people from the 
