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snow lies: at Gauricund and Gangotri, the rivers bed becomes more 
epen.—The temple at Gangotri, isa Mundup of stone of the smallest kind s 
“it contains small statues of Bhi giratht, Ganga, &c. and itis built over a 
piece of rock, called Bha girat’ht-Sild, and is about 20 feet higher than 
the bed of the Ganges; and immediately above its right bank, there is 
also a rough wooden building at a short distance for the shelter of tra- 
vellers,—By the rivers side, there is in some places soil, where small 
cedars grow; but in general the margin is strewed with masses of rock, 
which fall from the precipices above—the falls do not appear recent. 
Too much tired to attempt to boil mercury in the tubes to-day.—At 
night, having prepared the instruments to take the immersion of one of 
Jupiter’s Satellites, we laid dewn to rest, but between 10 and II o’clock, 
were awakened by the rocking of the ground, and on running out, soon 
saw the effects of an earthquake, and the dreadful sitaation in which we 
were, pitched in the midst of masses of rock, some of them more than 
100 feet in diameter, and which had fallen from the cliffs above us, and 
probably brought down by some former earthquake, 
THE scene around us, shewn in all its dangers by the bright moon. 
light, was indeed very awful—On the 2d shock, rocks were hurled in 
every direction, from the peaks around, to the bed of the river, with a 
hideous noise not to be described, and never to be forgotten: after the 
erash caused by the falls near us had ceased, we could still hear the ~ 
terrible sounds of heavy falls.in the more distant recesses of the mountains, 
We iooked up with dismay at the cliffs over head, expecting that the 
