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30, At 2675 P aces cr °f s a ft ream which in five -or fix branches comes 

 from the Cailds mountains and difembogues itfelf into the Rdwan- 

 h>ad. At 13235 paces reach the top : fee a fine looking wild horfe.— 

 Defcend to five tents: a wild afs grazing clofe to us, and a prodigious 

 flock oHheep and goats. The lake of M an far dwar or Map ang now 

 appears at the foot of a long declivity ofpafture bounded by im- 

 menfe mountains towards the South, and, having in front terraces of 

 fione with the ufual inferiptions, and a honfe inhabited by Gelums. 



'jiuguft 6th.— II alt on the bank of the lake Mdnfarowar. Morn- 

 ing early, thermometer 47. ° This lake is confidered as the mod 

 facred of all the places of worfhip in the opinion of the Hindus, 

 founded probably on the difficulty of accefs to it, not merely on 

 account of its diftance from Hind&ftan, and the ruggednefs and dan- 

 gers of the road, but from the neceflity of every pilgrim carrying 

 with him money and provifion, which latter he mud occafionally 

 eat without any preparation on account of fcarcity of wood. Few 

 Jdgis can afford the expence of this journey ; and I met with two 

 on the road, who mult have returned for want of funds if I had not 

 borne their expences. The name is derived from Man* and Jardzvar, 

 a Sanfcrit word fignifying a lake. The flory upon which this ap- 

 pellation is founded is related at great length in the Sdflra. Why it 

 is called Mapang by the Unias or Chinefe Tatars, I have not been able 

 to learn : but it is confidered by them an adt of religious piety 

 and duty, that the neare ft relation of a dead perfpn fhould carry a 

 portion of the alhes of the deceafed, and empty them out of a {"mall 

 bag into the lake, as is praclifed at Hardwdu 



Hindu geographers have derived the Ganges, the Satniird and the 



* At feill length Mano/a, divine : made by BhaumEj nmcdMxNAJ, ih« rainrf, emphatically. C, 



