A JOURNEY TO LAKE MANASAR6VARA, g 77 



JOURNAL. 

 May 26th.«~AT JoJhUMath we left the road to BhcLdrindt\ which' 

 erodes the Dauii a little more than a cos above the towfiio At the junc- 

 tion of the Vijhnu-Gangd with the Dauli, both rivers lofc their 

 names ; and the united dreams form the Alacanandd, the courfe of 

 which has been before mentioned. As the road to Jojhi-Mafh is 

 known by the furveys of the gentlemen deputed by Colonel Cole- 

 brooke, I have not been very particular in defcribing it:* but* as 

 the road to Niti and onwards is new ground to Europeans, I fhall fol- 

 low it with more exa£inefs e 



The principal part of the minutes of our route is taken from the note 

 book of Mr. Hearsay, who carried the compafs and brought up the 

 rear accompanied by Harkh Dev, and who engaged on fetting out, to 

 execute this part. Harkh Dev Pandit was dire&ed to ftride the 

 whole of the road at paces equal to 4 feet each.-f* 



Our road lay along the left bank of the Dauli t but generally at the 

 didance of at lead a cos. The road was pleafant but the heat was 

 greater than might have been expected, feeing that the fummits 

 of the mountains very near us were covered with fnow. 



The road was frequently crofled by fmall dreams of water, of which 

 feveral iffue from done conduits now out of repair. We faw people 

 fowing the Lai Sag or Amaranthus Gangeticus, a vegetable apparently 

 much ufed by the mountaineers. 



* For the fame reafon it is omitted in this abridgment. C. 



+ The Pandit's meafure of the road would probably ha.e been more; correft, had he been directed to 

 ftep h ; s ufual and natural paces, the length of which might have been eafih/ dcxuiincd with precihon by a 

 fliuall uiaL C. 



