MANASAR&VARA W 6N-D£S. 477 . 



j-w^ 16th.— Thermometer %$*. March at 8* 30'. River remain^ 



ing clofe to the left. The low warm fwampy land in the vales about 



Tittdpuri gives a graft, which is cut and carried as hay for winter pro-." 



virion, for the horfes ©f the Garpav, a ,-H the>p«o-ple<of Kien lung, Ddba 



and Dumpu, The grain called Awajau railed in 7 '<> kla-koU is a To given 



to them during § the rigorous feafon, and (aid to b ■ hearty To >d. As 



'this grain grows in a rigorous climate, it is worth while ik fend Tome 



1 to Britain Tor the ufe of the inhabitants -of theweftsra ill m 



'At '5280 paces, 'reach a deep ro6ky pits of a (lone laminated, rollcrl 

 ; and whirled as at Tirtdpuri, and apparently bound by the fame agency. 

 As 5^00, broken ground prefsnts appearances fimrkr to thofeTn which 

 -gold dull is found. At 5740 immerife manes' t)f broken rock of a 

 brown colour, much veined with quartz/in the cavities^of whi'tlvis much 

 ^rock cryilal ";' that, Which is fmali, generally 'tranfpatent and regular 

 j.jn form ; the large cry Ilrals ordinarily difcolroured, full of fl 1 ws, a-nd frac- 

 tured or fhivered. l At 6737, w&ter drips overan inclined plain of rock 

 and taftes fait and naufeous. At^i^S hot- water Hows from the rock 

 ana covers the edges oflts ecu rfe with ftony concretion of a yellowilh 

 colour. -At 9465 reach a good fankho over the Set'lej about fifteen 

 paces long, four feet broad. On the right bank a natural fountain throws 

 i hot- water a foot above its level, the edges of which a-re covered with a 

 ^compact, hard, white, tufa at a diftartce looking like-ice Come toour 

 ■ ground at 4 h io': wait in a cave till our baggage arrives. Have this 

 i day come 9765 paces, and encamp in a hollow furrounded by rocks 

 formed by hot- water, oppofite to the town of Kien-lung, fituated on 

 fpires of rock on the right bank of the SetUj diltant \ of a mile. The 

 1 --ad of to day has been of a very rugged defcription ; and the yaks 

 \ th the wool and baggage were obliged to make a circuitous routq 

 ov ;r the tops of the* hills, iri order to prevent the loads being knocked 



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