464 . - - ■ A JOURNEY TO LAKE ' 



■ Kul'i or Gogra from this lake ; and as I believe no Europeans ever bef re 

 vifited it, I was anxious to afc'ertai'n w nether it really gave rife to the 

 two la ft mentioned rivers or net— as to the former, it is quite char 

 from the obfervations made in this journey, coupled.with thofe. in the 

 trip undertaken at the fuggeftion of the late Colonel. Colebrcloke by 

 Me(T;s. Raper, Webb, and Hearsay, that the Ganges derives its fup- 

 plies from the melted fnow of the mountains of the Himalaya, and 1 

 tho'jfind fmall ftreams, which fall into its various branches during their 

 paffage from thefe llupendous rocks to the great common mouth at 

 Hardwdr ; and that it does not receive, the f mailed ftreamlet from their 

 extreme Northern face, nor from a iource to the Northward of them. 



Harballabh, the old pundit reported, that near the South-weflern 

 •corner, a river iffued frotri it, w! ich flowing in a wefterly direction went 

 along the Rdzoarfvad, and 'efc -ping from its Weftern extremity near 

 the foot of the great mountain, frmed the lirft brarch of the Setkj. 

 Yefterday evening I mounted upen a very high bank, and thought that 

 I perceived diftinctly the whole of the line of the fhore, without feeing 

 any outlet, with the exception of a fpace near the S. W. angle which a 

 projecting rock concealed from my view. Determined not to leave tbi& 

 point in doubt, I took a fi'fhing rod and gun, thinking that I mould have 

 ; time toamufe myfeif a little in one or other diverfion and return by the 

 evening.— At about ten I began my march j and, although very weak. 

 from the frequent attacks of fever to which I had lately been fubjeft, 

 I felt confidence that I mould accomptifh het objedt without any 

 material degree of fatigue— as we were encamped about the middle 

 of the northern fide, I walked along the fhore towards "the Weft— The 

 beach was formed of fragments of Hones rounded, and thinned when 

 of fmall fize, by the continual a&ion of the waves: but in fome places 

 great maffes of red and green granite, marble, and lime ftone had 



