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its lofty and massy towers, spires and buttresses; the parts left standing, 
might then in minature give an idea of the rocks of Bhairog’hatt. 
Tue preat cedar pines those cigantic sons of the snow, fringe these 
bare rocks and fix their roots where there appears to be very little soil, a 
few also of the larger deal pine, are seen, but inferior trees do not aspire 
to grow here. The day is:dull,and-rainy, and I cast my eyes up at the 
precipice overhead, not. without awe, a single fragment might. dash us 
to pieces. “Avalanches of snow and:rock such as we have passed to-day, 
and indeed for these. three last..days, shew. by their effects, their vast 
powers of destruction, ‘for they bring down forests, in their overwhelming 
course,°and dash the ‘cedars into: splinters, These avalanches have all 
fallen this season, they. have in places filled up the dells and-water courses : 
to.a great depth with snow, and extend from the peaks to the margin of. 
the rivers. 
_ A PAINTER wishing ‘to represent a scene ofthe harshest features of 
nature, ‘should take his station under the Sduga of Bhairog’hdti or at 
the confluence of the Bhé girathi and Jdhnevt rivers, here it is proper 
to take some notice of this latter river hitherto little known. Though the 
Bha gi ratht is esteemed the holy and celebrated Ganges, yet the Jah< 
nevi is accounted, to be and I think is, the larger stream. From a 
Brahman who officiates at Gangotré, and: who has been up it, I collected 
some particulars which though perhaps far from correct, may ‘serve 
to) give an idea of it, By the course of the river isa ‘pass to Bhoat or 
Thibet, by which the people from Reztal and the upper villages of Rowaren 
