44® A" JOURNEY TO LAKE ' ' 



barb plants In plenty. At 6375 paces our dream joins' another; anefc! 

 the road leads to a plain, on which were two wild horfes and a prodi- 

 gious number of hares. At 8025 paces reach the bed of a clear, broads 



and rapid, but not deep river-, plain dug in many parts for gold. Hav* 

 ing eroffed the river, and reached our ground at 1 P. M. and 1196V 



paces, we encamped, —We killed, this day one hare, and. two 

 groufe, or birds of this clafs, of a fawn colour, feathered legs, broad 

 feet, covered with a pad of horn, divided into many points, like (ha* 

 green, and having two long thin tail-feathers.. This river, which rifes- 

 near Gongre, goes pad Gkertope, then clofe to Latakox Laddk, and is faid 

 like wife to proceed, to Bokhara, where probably it falls into the Ammoo^ 

 Djihon or Oxus, The mountains.- oa each (ide of this valley or, plain*, 

 which, is about live miles acxofs,. dip much to the N. W». 



July 17 th;,— -Thermometer gjgft , Ice or water near our encampment: 

 Saw feme Brahniini geefe* and fmall fhnkes hovering over the river* 

 Mi 336 paces afcend the foot of the mount, ranging with the river, which 

 runs about eighty yards to the left.. At 236© paces 3 the plain is divided 

 into an upper ilep about two miles broad 3 and a lower one, in which 

 is the river following the middle of the lower ilep or valley, and about 

 a mile in breadth. Many wild horfes on the upper Hep. At 3200 paces 

 myriads of fmall £ies 9 ,. very troublefome. At 4205, road very uneven 

 from hillocks and hollows*.. The furface of the ground covered with 

 fait. At 572.o> the various currents which divided the valley unite and 

 form a large and clear flream, of confiderable rapidity. At 6000, avery 

 large but dry. watercourie leads to the river. At 8600-, a valley 'opens,.- 

 from two to three miles-broad', .and covered with large pebbles* Heat very. 

 great. At.i 1^278, come to five currents of :a river, which we erofs. , This 

 river rifts from mountains covered, with fuow lying- S 4 75 E. and falls*. 



* Anas Cafaicii. 



