HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS %&$ 



Left hand Bearing? Right SuadL 



by 

 Cocnpafs. Paces* 



Over rocks along the banks gs® 



of the Ganges, which here (howed 



itfelfi* 



Set off to return by the fame road towards DbsrdH: there being no other pi a8i» 

 table route. 



The fequel ©f the field book is kept in a fimiUr manner; but it is thought 

 unneceUary to tranflate it. 



* In front was a §ecp mountain like a wall of fock s from an angle bf which the 

 Ganges appeared to come. Beyond the prefent llation was nothing but fnow, noi 

 any road, but that termination of the valley. From drea>d, none woulcTventure 

 into the water of the Ganges. The fnowy tops' "of "the 1 mountains appeared of 

 ■various height; and not the leaft fign of vegetations nothing but fnow s maffes o£ 

 which were falling from the mountains. As the people in company- were deterred 

 from advancsng a and there appeared no road by which So penetrate, and further 

 progrefs feemed full of peril and of terror,, I was under the aeceffity of returning to 

 &ar?gdwatrL 



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