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I take this opportunity of adding to the former communication of 

 Captain Raper's account of the journey to Bhadrmath and to Retal, and 

 Bit'hdri on the route towards Gangdwatdri, the narrative of theprofecu- 

 tion of the journey towards the fource of the BhdgiraPhihy the Munflii, 

 who was fent from the laft mentioned flation to explore that fource, 

 and who actually penetrated feveral miles beyond Gangdwatdri. It is 

 taken from the field book which was kept by him, and of which the 

 original has been delivered to me by Lieutenant Webb. The route is 

 laid down from this journal in Lieutenant Webb's map of a furvev of 

 the Ganges within the mountains,, inferted in the laft volume of. the 

 Jtfiatick Refearches.* 



It will be obferved, that the Munjhi eroded the Ganges feveral times 

 on SavgaSj or bridges confiding of one or two fir trees laid acrofs from 

 bank to bank. The breadth of the river, or, which is the fame thin^, 

 the length of the bridge, was, in the firft fuch in (lance which occurred, 

 gS paces. At the fecond bridge the breadth of the river crofted was 46 

 paces j half of which confilted of rocks in the middle of the river, and 

 the other half only appears to have been the breadth of the ft ream.. In 

 the third inftance the diftance from bank to bank was 51 paces; but 

 one-third of this was rock, leaving two-thirds only or 35 paces 

 for the width of the ftream. The fourth bridge was 54 pa- 

 ces long ; but the fifth, 28 only : and the fixth appears to have been 

 no more than 25 paces. This was below the confluence of the 



Vol. XI. a p. 447. 



