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no one, except one of my bearers upon the leg, and he was more alarm- 

 ed than hurt. rro: . .. 



The view of the village of Malari from the top of the hill, where it 

 comes in fight at a diilance of about a mile, is pleafing, and would give 

 a good effect on canvas* It is placed in the eaflern angle- of a triangular 

 plain about a. mile, on each face, and bounded on two fides by ftreams, 

 and on the other- by fee p hills, covered up to their fummits with a bed 

 of fnow, thin on the projecting parts and deep in the ravines. The 

 fouthern dream is half choaked by banks of frozen fnow, through 

 which a mountain current, formed by fpring water and melted fnow, 

 forces its way, undermining the mafTes of congealed fnow, which now 

 impede itfprogrc fs ; but which in two months will be difiblved and 

 carried into the Daulilh&t runs with impetuofity from the north to 

 the well. 



Thf extremely neat (late of the land recently fown principally with 

 China*, andfeparated into fields by recently piled (lone fences and living 

 hedges, would do credit to any country ; but the proportion of cul- 

 tivated to uncultivated land in this country at prefent isalmofl as a 

 drop of water to a large river. ■ — : 



The village of MdlariconCi&s of about 20 houfes built of rough ftonbi 1 

 cemented with clay and mixed with much wood. Many are of one 

 flory, but more of two, and fome even of three ftories. The lower 

 range is generally given to the cattle.. Circular ftonesr, with holes 

 through the middle of them, are hung by ropes to the projecting 

 ends of the beams at the gables, to prevent the roof beings injured by 

 gufts of wind which are here frequent and violent. Thfe upper {lory 



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