Rivers, GANGES AND JuMNA. 89 
Wuicw is in a very strange place fora tent to be in, and one of the 
most curious sights among many here, is to see a little tent. pitched, under. 
vast overhanging masses of rock, at the confluence of these two rivers, 
the Bhd giyat’hi and its foaming rival the Jdhnt Ganga or as more properly 
called the Jdhnevi, the strange and-terrific appearance of this place 
(Bhairog’ hati). exceeds, the idea I had formed of it: no where in my: 
travels, in these rude mountains, have I seen any thing to be compared: 
with this, in horror and extyavaeance. Precipices’ composed of: the most: 
solid granite, confine both riversin narrow ‘channels, and these. seem to 
have been scooped out by the: foree of the waters, | Near the Sdugd, the 
Bhagirai?ht has in some places scolloped out the rock which overhangs: 
it. ‘Phe base of these:peaks is.of the most compact sort of granite, it:1s) 
of alight, hue) with’ small pices of black sparry substance: intermixed: 
From the smoothness of the rocks which ‘confine the stream’ and which 
appear to have been worn so by water, I think the stream must have 
formerly flowed on a higher level, and that it is gradually scooping its 
channel deeper, for it does not. appear that the walls which confine the 
rivers, are masses fallen from above, but that they are the bases of the peaks 
themselves. Enormous blocks have indeed fallen, and hang over our 
heads in threatning confusion, some appear 209 feet in diameter, and here 
are we sitting among these ruins, by the fire side at noon,—Thermometer 52. 
What are these pinnacles of rock, 2 or 3000 feet high which are above 
us like! I kiiow not. To compare small with great, I think the aptest 
idea I can form of any thing that might be hke them, would be the 
appearance that the ruins of a Gothic cathedral, might have, toa specta- 
tor within them, supposing that thunder bolts, or earthquakes had rifled 
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