Rivers, Gances anp Jumna, 
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22 miles. 
May 3st. From halting place, forward, 
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1 Along, and above the right bank of the river, rocks and 
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2 Descent to the bed of the river, enclosed by rocks...... 
3 Amost wonderfv! scene—The B’hagirat’hi or Ganges 
issues fromm under a very low arch at the faot of the 
grand snow bed—The river is here bounded to the 
right and left by high snow and rocks s but in’ front, 
over the Debouche, the mass of snow is perfectly 
_perpendiculary and from the bed of the stream to the 
summit, we estimate the thickness at little less than 
300 feet of solid frozensnow, probably the accumula- 
tion of ages;—it is in-layers of some feet thick, each 
seemingly the remains of a f.ll of a separate year, 
From the brow of this curious wall of snow, and ime 
‘mediate'y above the outlet of the stream, large and 
hoary icicles depends they are’ formed by the freez= 
ing of the melted snow water of the top of the bed, 
for in the middle of the day, the sun is powerful, and 
the water produced by its action falls over this place, 
in cascade, but is frozen at night.—The Gangotri 
Brahmin who came with us, and who is only an 
Gg 
upwards of a mile and-a,half, at the short horizontal distance of 
wer 
Paces. 
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