4 8o ■/A "JOURNEY TO 'LAKE ' 



favourable for pafturage,, the greateft part of the inhabitants here 

 left the town and gone to. a diftance with their flocks and herds. 



Auguft i/th.^^THERMOMETER 42°. Four men were difpatched be- 

 fore day-break in fearch of the firkar's bundle 3 which they found, and 

 returned by nine o'clock: however, as the frrvants had begun to 

 cook their victuals, we could not march fill l 11 50. The heat was very 

 great. — At 500 paces a ftrong fulphureous fmefl Times from hot 

 fp rings ; the rocks flamed yellow with fulphur, which appears in con- 

 fiderable quantity mixed with earth in ihteruices betwixt mafles of rock. 

 At 2875^ the channel of the river from,beirig broad fuddeniy reduced 

 to 50 yards; road along its edge {tony. Reached our ground at feveti 

 JVM. 8383 paces This has been one of the -moll rugged marches we 

 have had in the Unda. /As it grew dark, we fired carbmes occasional" 

 ly to apprife our people behind of the direction we were encamped 

 in; and at h'aflfpaft nine had the fatisfaction to fee rhem arrive without 

 liaving me£ with any ferious accident. 



Augvjl 18th.— Thermometer 37 . March at 8 h $5. "Some of the 

 ■*vak cows left the water courfe and went up the rock, the face of which 

 became fieeper as they advanced. v'Orie of them,, finding heffelf fepa- 

 rated from the great mafs of her companions, without" he fitation, leaped 

 from a height of about fourteen feet into the dry w^ter-courfe, appa- 

 rently without being hurl by the fhock ; and her example was follow- 

 ,id by thofe which had taken theTaihe path. 



At 6900 paces, commence defending to a river formed of two 



branches, the right coming from S. 5 W. the left S. 35 W. They run 



.K 30 E 9 ..At 7625 reach the point at which the ftreams juft; mentioned 



join, and brewing through a high mountain, fall into the Salej. Trie 



