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By the barometer, it appeared, we were 11,160 feet above the SCA = 
Water boiled at 193 of Fahrenheit. 
AuirTce tent, which one man carries on his back, came to us; but in this 
trip, we eat and slept on the ground, and were well pleased to have got 
so far beyond Gangotré, hitherto the boundary of research on the Ganges. 
Latitude observed........30 58 59 
Tue place we passed the night on is elevated above the left margin 
of the stream, being a sort of bank formed by the ruins of fallen peaks s 
but as the falls are not recent, nor the slope so. steep, as in most places, 
the birch trees and various sorts of small pines and mosses have had 
time to fix their roots, and afferd fuel and shelter—A very long and 
deep snow avalanche reaches from the peaks above the left bank, down’ 
to the river, and conceals it. ‘Qn the opposite side ef the river, the cliffs 
are of great height and mural, except in one place wherea tremendous fall 
has taken place, encumbering and ebstructing the bed ef the river. But 
these ruins are so frequent, that the traveller scrambles through them 
with little regard, except where the freshness of the fracture of the fallen 
masses of rock warns him te mend his pace, and get as soon as possible 
out of danger. 
May 30th, Birch Tree, Halting place, forward. Ther. Sun rise, 32 
Set off from the middle of the snow bed. sx 
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Paces. Degrees. 
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1 A torrent.8 feet wide, 5 inches deep, joins the river. Its 
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