MANASAROVARA IN UN-BE'S, 



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ing my fteps to the South,' I went along the bafe of granite rocks 

 amongfl fuch trooblefbme, rugged and ■ flipper y (tones:, as " had inter- : 

 rupted my progrefs in the outlet, till I reached a high, level, ; and firm s 

 bank, which feparated the water of the lake from that which accumu- 

 lated by the Hope of the furrounding upland, directing the melted 

 fnow into it. At the end of this natural barrier, I fa w a point of 

 rock running into the lake, from the top of which I flattered myfelf I • 

 fhould have a pFofpecl that would command the whole of the Ihore lo 

 the S. W. corner, and put an end to a tafk which I now found fome- 

 what too much for the little llrength I -.poffe-fTed*— But I was Severely 

 difappointed : for, on mounting a deep hill, of which the point in 

 que (lion formed the front to the lake, another large mountain inter- 

 vened to prevent my view, with a deep valley between it, and that, 

 which I had too haftily concluded would finifh my labour. When I 

 had reached the fummit of this, another equally high prefented it (elf.. 

 My fervants were much fatigued : for my own p^rt, I was obliged fre- 

 quently to lay down; and it was four o'clock when I reached a fmall 

 religious pile, whence I got a fair fight of the Ihore I was fo anxious to 

 fee, with the exception of a very i'mall portion that was intercepted 

 by the proje&ion of a high bluff angle flatting into the lake: unable 

 to proceed from the aching of my limbs and intenfe third, which 

 I could not gratify, I fent a trufty harkdrah to explore the angle which 

 was concealed from my fight. -The fky, which had frequently been over- 

 call and difturbed with violent gulls of wind, now became clear, 

 and funfhine illuminated the whole of the circumference of the 

 like, fo as to enable me diftinctly to define every portion of its 

 fhore clofe to the edge of the water, and up to the foot of the 

 mountains, by which it is embayed, with the exception of the point 

 to which I had directed the- harkdrah to proceed : there were nume- 

 rous traces of watercourfes leading into it, the mod important of 



