80 A SURVEY OF THE 
plains passed them very well (three persons excepted) but many of the moun 
tain coolies, were obliged to be led over, with their eyes shut, as well as 
some of the Goorkha sepoys. ‘To get well-over then, it is proper to take 
careful steps (but not to go teo slow) and to keep ones eyes steadily 
fixed on the platform, and by mo means to look over the side, at the 
foaming gulph below, or te step or hesitate when on the Sangha. The 
scenery to day was in nature’s grandest and rudest-stile, wall like precipie 
ces of compact -granite bounding the river on both sides, to the immedic 
ate height of 2 or 3,000 feet: above those cliffs is snow. 
Latitude Observed. M. A. Spica. ‘Honason3 Circle,..30 59 40° 5 
Mtergears Sextant,...30 59 40 
30 59 40 25 
24th Real aici to Derdili, Thermometer oO. R. a os 
Road along side of mountain, moderate ascent........ 742 46 
Crest of rise—Ganges up bee Meveveis Wei alesis (ew cine 910 38646 
Descent and cross the Ganges, by a Sangha, length 
of the Bridge 115 feet, breadth 3. feet—breadth of the © 
river: below, 82 feet—depth to the surface of th 
water, from the Sangha 19 feet (measured by the 
chain.) ‘This is the best Sangha, on the river and - 
the water below is not so rapid as usual—Jhala 
village of 5 Houses, 3405 above Thala, the country is 
