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a few yards through a hole in the snow, the 
snow bed is about 100 yards wide, and bounded 
by high precipices, from which masses of rock of 
40 feet in length have recently fallen,,.......... 0 38 Q14 
8 River as before, under the snows; here it appears 
through a deep hole, falling in a cascade from the 
reck below the snow.—KHocks on both sides, those 
fou dhe, ment Cased With, iC@.op.jsenc esa nenesenee  O-.1 159 
§  Jumnotri.—The place so called .....s2e.sssers05- O O G64 
Total miles.... 2 7 100 
Ar Jumnotrt, the snow which covers and conceals the stream is 
about 60 yards wide, and is bounded to the right and left by mural 
precipices of granite; it is 40 feet 93 inches thick, and has fallen from 
the precipices above.—In front, at the distance of about 500 yards, 
part of the base of the great Jumnotrt ‘mountain rises abruptly, cased 
in snow and ice; and shutting up and totally terminating the head of 
this defile, in which the Jumna originates.—I was able to measure 
the thickness of the bed of snow over the stream very exactly, by means 
of a plumb line let down through one of the holes in it, which are 
caused by the steam of a great number of boiling springs which are at 
the border of the Jumna.—The snow is very solid, and hard frozen; but 
we found means to descend through it to the Jumna, by an exceedingly 
steep and narrow dark hole made by the steam, and witnessed a very 
