Rivers, GANGES AND JUMNA, 149 
seen by the notes, that from the place called Bhairo Ghat7, the bed of 
the river is overlaid with snow to the depth of from 15 to 40 feet, except 
at one or two places, where it shews itself through deep holes in the snow, 
Tue snow bed is bounded to the richt and left by mural precipices of 
ight coloured granite 3—on some ledges there is a sprinkling of soil, where 
the B’hojpatra bushes grow. The end of this dell or defile is closed, as 
before observed, by part of the base of the great snowy mountain of 
Jumnotrt, and which is yale from the plains. ‘Phe altitude of the part 
of the mountain, visible, is 29 48; but higher parts are concealed by the 
lower and nearer. ‘The face of ihe mountain, whichis visible to the height 
of about 4009 feet, is entirely eased in snow and ice, and very steep,—Vhe 
foot of. the base is distant from the hot springs about 500 yards, and ims 
mediately where the ascent becomes abrupt, a small rill is seen faliing 
from a rock, which projects from the snow; it is about 3 feet wide, and 
shallow, being only a shower of spray produced by the snow now thaws 
mg in the sun’s rays at noon. Above that, no water whatever is seen; if 
there were any, it would be visible, as the whole steep base of the moun- 
tain is exposed to view, directly in fronts consequently, the above rill is the 
most remote source of the Jwmna.—At the present season, 1t was not 
possible to go to it, as the snow bed was further on impassable, being 
intersected by rents and chasms, caused by the falling in of the snow, as 
it melts by the steam of the boiling springs below it. 
Herz then is the head of the Jumna, on the S. west side of the grand 
Himalaya ridge, differing from the Ganges, inasmuch as that river has 
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