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Wffi have defcended much to the Setlej, not with (landing the moun«. 

 tains are high, which intervene between this river and Dabd, and the 

 heat is great. In the tents,, the thermometer flood at o6°. Diftanc© 

 come this day 7525 paces* 



July 13th.— Thermometer, at funrife 56 ; march at 6® 30'. This plain 

 Is ftony, about half a mile in breadth and length, bounded partly by 

 heights and partly by the Setlej. It is full of ih allow pits made by per- 

 fons who have dug for gold duft, and left heaps of (tones by the fides 

 of the excavations* At 30& paces afcend to another flat which has like- 

 wife been dug. At 1835 P aces reach a fmall flat, where there has beers 

 cultivation ; caves of gold minesin the rock to the left, now deferted „■ At 

 5975 P aces reach a houfe near which are two gold mines with tunnels 

 under the furface. *— Heretofore the excavations were perpendicular. 

 The earth is dug out and carried to the brook to be walked. — At 6*182 

 paces arrive at the ground for encampment near the village of Damoo, 

 fituate halfway up a rock on the right bank of a watercourfe, in the di* 

 re&ion of which we travelled mod part of this day, confiding of a few 

 sed houfes, and many caves, with two or three temples, ■ 



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In the evening killed Feven hares.— There are great numbers of 

 the fe animals. They are fliortcr in their bodies, longer in the hind 

 legs, and fomewhat fmaller than thofe in- ■ England, — Their fur is 

 much finer and longer: altogether they are much paler generally. 

 The under part of the neck is fawn colour, fides greyifh, belly white 8 

 and the thighs are furnilhed with thicker and longer furs than the reft 

 of the body, and of an a fh or lead colour mixed with grey — When 

 difturbed, they fly to the mountains, but frequently flop and rife on 

 their hind legs to look at their purfuers. Their flelh is well tatted 5 

 aad they are very prolific ; as in two there were eight young ones*- 



