MA'NASARO'VARA IN IJN-DES, S79 



5 28th.— Resume our journey, leaving our ground at 6 h 30' ftierrm 

 funrife 58°.. Pafs by a Sattga over the Dauli y and at 3696 paces reach ©ur 

 ground, a little below the- almoit deferted.; village; o£ ; Tap&bafo plaqed.ori 

 the brow of a hill furmounted by woods of pine, cedar andcyprefs.* A 

 confiderable dream falls into the Dauli below the village; and by the 

 fide of thisjsa fmall rivulet of $epid ( water.^Thjs current .mixes with 

 the cold ftream before it reaches the Dauli, ?.nd jfTues from fome rough 

 ground in the face of a rpckf The heat, of the] water feemed to' be 

 very agreeable to tadpoles* wfeli hM deferred |he : 'colder ilream to 

 take refuge in thjs, 



I observe© a common plant fomethlng refembling butcher's broom; 

 which was laid to be the Setbarud) from which the mountaineers make a 

 paper that is fold at Sirinagar and Almora 3 and from thence finds its 

 way into Hinduflan although not in large quantity. =-*The bankers em- 

 ploy it for their bills of exchange or Hindis, in preference to any 

 other kind, as the ink does not fink, further into its fub fiance, than is 

 neceflary to retain the writing, as it does not imbibe water readily, and 

 relatively to its thicknefs is much (Ironger than any other kind of pa* 

 per. As connected with paper, I mud here obferve, that the layers of 

 the bark of birch are ufed by the natives to write upon and they bear 

 both ink and the flroke of the pencil very well. The leaves are cal* 

 led Bhoj-patr. The bark of the bircrj is ufed at Lac'knau for covering 

 £he wires of huka-fnakes. 



29th.— Settle to give Jowar Sinh 26* rupees in full of all taxes and 

 demands to be made upon us until we reach the frontier ; for which he 

 gave a receipt on birch paper : having previoufly put alide a fee of five 

 rupees for the part he bore in the transaction. As our carriers came in a 



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# Probably a fpecies of pine, as well a* that which Mr. Moqrcroft denominates cedar, C; 



