Rivers, GANGES AND JUMNA: 91 
go to get salt, blanket cloth and wool, in exchange for grain, ‘The trade 
is trifling, and not more than 109 people go yearly, in the latier end of 
the rains the road.is open. ‘They carry their goods;on sheep and. goats. 
The Bréhman fias. been at the frontier village called Netlang, it is four 
long, and. very difficult days. journey. “The first. three days are up the 
course of the river, high above its hed, for the most part, but occasionally 
descending to it. It is exceeding steep and difficult. 
Ist Day.—They-go along the high precipice on the right bank of the 
river—a Sdngd,atthe end of along march. Very bad path—no village. 
_ 2p Day.—Having crossed, very bad path to Cartchd a halting place— 
no village, Cedar.pines here. : 
_ 3p Day.—On,same:bank of the: river-to, Handouly, a halting places 
_ but no village. Notia very long march. 
Aru Day.—The frontier or (Do-bhashias) village called Netlang in 
the district of Tungsah, at this village, the river seems (they. say) but 
little diminished in size, and there is a Sdngd over it. This man can 
give no account of its origin, except that he -believes it comes from some 
hills in Bhoat. The first part of the course of the river: upwards, so far 
as can be seen from Bhairog’hdtt is 72 N. E. and from what I can un- 
derstand, it appears that this river has:its source to the north of that ridge 
of the Himdlaya, which bounds the Bha girat’hi, to the N. E. or on its. 
right bank, and that, between Bhairog’hati, and perhaps the third day’s 
