<2 9 2 A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



gap was very wide, the trunk of a large tree was put acrofs; the upper 

 fide being cut a little flat, or elfe hiving notches hewn in it as Itepping 

 places; an open fpace being left between it and the wall. Commonly 

 thefe trees or Sankhos over chafms, as well as thofe Sankhos acrofs 

 rivers,, are tolerably well guarded again II turning, either by being 

 weighted with large (tones at each end or by having rude (lone wedges 

 driven through two holes at each extremity of the trunk or plank. — • 

 Where the chafm is too long for a tree, a heap of flattifh (tones is 

 placed in the nearefl; part which affords room for the bafe of a flio-hfc 

 of fteps, conftrucled fometimes of (tones wholly, fometimes of ft ones 

 fupported in front by logs of wood : but no railing is to be met with 

 any where; and, from the general loofenefs of the mode of building, 

 thefe roads are fubject foon to get out of order; but, if the (tones be 

 large and the bafe flat, this kind of llair lads longer than might be 

 expe&ed, as the paffengers walk with care. Slips from the hills do 

 molt mifchief to them, and their courfe being almoft always at 

 the foot or on the (ide of mountains expofes them to conltant injury 

 in fome part of their extent. To-day I had jufl eroded the flooe of a 

 Hip that had happened laft night; when I heard a little trickling abovej, 

 which rapidly increafed, and was caufed by a Ohower of frriall (tones, of 

 which fome Aid eafily over the furface of the falling earth, but others, 

 having got a little momentum by rolling over perpendicular breaks,, 

 dafhed down with fuch force, as would have been fatal to any animal 

 which they might have chanced to (trike in their fall. 



As Mr. Hearsay was following the coolies, three bears, which were 

 fcampering up a (leep gulley, that had been a water courfe, but was 

 now half filled by fand, earth and (tones, difplaced (tones about 300 

 feet above the road. Thefe in their defcentloofcned others, and dallied 

 acrofs the roid while the coolies were paffing, but fortunately (truck 



