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Close to this place the road was broken by a recent flip, and we had 

 to pafs upon the crumbling furface. The road this day was in many 

 parts very fatiguing. In one place a Hip of earth had laid bare a large 

 furface of rock, which had been formerly covered by the road ; and as 

 it doped to the river with a (harp defcent, it required every exer- 

 tion and care to guard again ft a flip of about a hundred feet into a 

 current, which dafhed with great force amongft fragments of marble, 

 which in two or three points actually formed a bridge acrofs the 

 dream. — In another part we were obliged to climb up the face of 

 a rock nearly perpendicular, and on which, irregularities for the 

 toe to hang upon, were at a molt inconvenient diftance. My left 

 foot having flipped off one of them, I lay for a few feconds upon 

 the poife, but a fnatch at a clump of grafs, which on being feized, 

 luckily did not give way, and a fudden fpring, brought me to a 

 comparatively fafe fpot, with the lofs of fome fkin from my knees 

 and elbows, and fome rents in my trowfers and fleeves. — Sometimes 

 points of rock projected to the edge of the river, and thefe were 

 turned by rude flaircafes made of wood and ftone. — Retiring angles 

 were paffed by inclined planes formed by a tree being laid on points 

 of flone on each fide of the angle, and loofc Hones were thrown 

 from the wood to the rock. For a moment the eye could not quit 

 the road and furfer the feet to proceed, without rifk of accidents ; 

 and yet a trifling expenfe would render the road in general paffable, 

 although it would always be liable to be injured by the falling of 

 the rocks above. 



When we had reached the cuflom houfe on the middle of the 

 mountain immediately beyond a Sanga by which we croffed the 

 Rauni, we found one of our fircars who was detained by three men and 

 as many women as pledge for the payment of duties on the paflage 



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