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territories of the great Lama, the Chinefe government ordered 30,000 

 maunds of rice to be taken out of the magazine, which is in facl the 

 property of the public ; but how the funds are provided, I did not 

 learn. 



July 12th. — Thermometer 51". The Chouar bullocks arrived at day- 

 break ; and having paid for their hire as well as for the food of two 

 horfemen, who were to accompany us, into the hands of the interpre- 

 ter, we flruck our tents and took leave of Ddbi. At 4905 paces arrive 

 at the fummit of hills, faid to contain gold. To the right are clay hills 

 broken down by melting fnow into ftrange looking projeciiohs and 

 hollows. Scarcely the flighted appearance of vegetation, and yec a 

 hare.was feen upon thefe heights. At 5116" paces reach a narrow pafs, 

 through which we go and de fee rid to a ftony plain, then enter a very 

 deep water coutTe now dry, of which the banks are perpendicular, of 

 vail height, and formed of beds of gravel. I examined their ftruclure 

 with great attention, in hopes of finding fome traces of marine pro-" 

 duclions, but was difappointed. At 7230 p ;ees came to a plain Hoping 

 to the Satudrd or Setlej'. It came from the S. W. by W. and ran N. E. 

 receiving here the Tiltil; breadth 80 yards, depth 3! feet. The cur- 

 rent was fo rapid, that I could fcarcely keep my footing. On the 

 plain were two very beautiful poplar trees, in which were many gold- 

 finches, which regaled me with a fong, whilft I fat under the made of 

 the trees, waiting for the party, having reached the river half an hour 

 before they arrived. 



The broken ground in the neighbourhood of Ddbd, and which we 

 did not lofe fight of, until we quitted the bed of tfie Tiltil, was very 

 extraordinary in appearance. The right bank was of great height, and 

 the melting fnow had cut the clay of which it was formed, into 



