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^ars than rats ; ^. Marmot P* They burrow in the ground, and fecm 

 to affociate with a fmaller fpecies of the fame form and general cha- 

 racter, but of a much darker colour ; perhaps younger ones only. One 

 of this fort was fhot yefterday, being taken for a young hare ; which 

 it refembles in its mode of jumping and fitting on its hind legs. At 

 5551 paces the valley narrows to 600 yards 1 furrounding hills faid to 

 contain gold, which is fometimes found in lumps of considerable fize; 

 At 9786 paces encamp; at 11 A.M. cloudy, high wind ; begins to rain^ 

 afterwards hails, and this alternately with (Irong wind till fun-fet^ 

 when the atmofphere clears and the wind falls. 



July 16th. Thermometer at fun-rife 34 ; our tents frozen. Marcft 



at 6° 45' along the left bank of the ftream which we followed yefter- 

 day, faw clofe to our ground a large pair of horns attached to a Ikull, 

 which I fuppofed to have belonged 4o the Bar&l or wild fheep a but 

 was faid by the Uniyas to be an animal called Douga. At 1905 paces 

 large fragments of frozen fnow fallen into the water from the rocks, al« 

 mod choking up the channel, which is not above feven yards broad. 

 The frozen fnow. or rather ice, when broken from the edge of the 

 projecting banks under which the water flows^ divides into pyramidal 

 ©r conical nails, the ftnail part downwards. Red (tones.,- fomethinglike 

 cinnabar of antimony, with black Ihining cry Hals, interfperfed through 

 fneir fubftance. Large lumps of green granite glazed over, in parts 

 with a kind of green glafs, in the bed of the ftream. At 2000 paces 

 enter into a narrow defile or frozen fnow, which the ftream has cut 

 through and deferted. A ledge of about eight feet thick, is fufpended to 

 the rock at each fide, leaving a narrow paffage beteen them, 94 paces 

 long ; at 2435 P aces came to another defile of ice ' At 34 2 ° P aces > rhu " 



* .Probably a new kind ; as all the known fpe'ejes of A:c«oroys have (bort cars or none, I < other icfyeci* 

 icemi to agree with the gcnui, 



