Rivers, Gances anp JumNa. 107 
Paces. Degrees. 
PDN rA 
the rocks.—From the top of the snow bed, a noble 
snowy peak (Si. George) appears, bearing 132 38 5 
Altitudes. ac. Heieielarewie LONSO. 0 
A ‘snow peak behind us, distant about 20 miles, 
ease ie Ea nee EA ey 984 34. 
ALIVE oy bab obo ees aes 3 02 - 2 1478 ditto 
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Total Paces 12,220 
_ Asove the left bank of the river, and by the side of the snow bed, are 
some birch trees and small long leaved firs, but no more cedars.—This 
‘being the only convenient or safe place we could see, we halted here. 
‘The river is perceptibly diminished in bulk already, and we hope that 
to-morrow we may see its head.—The march to-day was most toilsome 
and rough through the loose fragments of rock which daily fall at this 
season from the peaks on either side to the river, in the afternoon, when 
the sun melts the snow.—Travellers should contrive to gain a safe place 
by noon, or they may be dashed to pieces. 
Ir was very cold at this place, and froze all night, but we had plenty 
of firewood from the Bhojpatra trees.—The soil was spungy, and full of 
rocks.—The silence of the night was several times broken by the noise 
of the falling of distant avalanches, 
