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a fmall and a large one. The Dauli about eighteen yards broad. At 

 10,971 paces come to fome cedars* and halt. The Dauti much 

 reduced. 



At our place of encampment, a black fcorpion was brought, and 

 was laid to be harmlefs : however, on pulling off his fling and 

 preffing it, a large drop of a thin milk coloured fluid e leaped from 

 its point. 



On the top of a high mountain thinly fprinkled with worm* wood, 

 dwarf cypreffes,* and a kind of furze, blocks of marble and hard Hones 

 were fcattered about in every direction, which feemed to contain mine- 

 rals; and I am much deceived, if I did not fee fome veins of filverf in 

 ilrata of quartz. I had no inflruments to break Hones with, nor did I fee 

 any fmall fragments which I could with convenience place in my 

 girdle. I was obliged therefore rather to leave this point unfettled, 

 th*n to expo fe myfelf to the fufpicion of coming into the country in 



fearch of precious metals. The furfaces of many of the hardeft (lones, 

 on this fide of the Pak funde, are fludded with fmall red cryflals, 

 which project ; at firlt view, one is difpofed to take them for garnets ; 

 but they are not tranfparem. They are fo firmly imbedded in the 

 fubdance of the (lone which ferves as matrix to them, that they cannot 

 be raifed by any common inflrument in a perfect flate, fo that 

 1 could not count their faces. 



The fcenery of this day has always been wild and in fome place* 

 mod impofingly majeflic; efpecially from the fide of the mountain 

 where we halted. On every fide the view is bounded by fummits 



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