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LY Descente:'Gaurtcund a‘ small ‘flat space by the river: 
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from the river bed ‘onthe opposite side to the summit 
of thé mountains which are very steep. We are al- 
most inssight-of Gangotrt, ....csvccsceccccvccsecs 
The river flows Uinder beds of snow which have fallen 
into it, from the peaks, and Cover it)... veseseseneeee 
Steep ascent and ‘cross a torrent, o eeké alone eléleke:e pelltacee aa am 
Pass above a Cascade falling over a precipice of grey gra~ 
nite with ‘black ‘sparry spots. Wonderfully steep 
Paces. Degrest. 
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“precipices ‘on ‘both sides of ‘the river, on this side the) 
rocks are quite ‘bare and shattery,.co.eccssceovceees 
Cross above:a ‘Cascade falling from a rocky gorge to the 
left—Path: extreniely: bad.-. ‘This river below. foaming 
between walls “of rock perfectly perpendicular, A 
Sdngd (now’ destroyed) had formerly been laid over 
at this place, by the banditti who in the rains plun- 
der the Céddrniith districts to the Eastward. ‘The 
ro¢ks throngly which the river flows have . horizontal 
strat#‘dind the figlit hue/of Portland stone--They are as 
usual, eran val "he cedars here.are poor and starved— 
Very high \bareorocks ‘above ‘to left...Rudr Himd- 
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side+sOn—the opposite side the Cédargangd falls into 
the Ganges from. 107. It has no claim to the title ofa 
River;/being merely a torrent from the snow, of 10 or 
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