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bank on this fide is as it were differed ; the fofter parts having been 

 waGied from the harder ftrata : the latter prefent a very irregular and 

 extra< rdinary projecting furfa-ce. At 7700, crofs the river \~ feet deep. 



•at 8000 dtfeend to fecond river, the water of which is more clear, and its 



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banks afford more grafs and furze for fuel. At 8050 crofs and encamp 

 at one P. M. Here we obferved on the banks of the river many larva, q£ a 

 kind of locuft, which breeds on. the flony plains of Tatary, marked on 

 the body with a yellow ring on a black ground, and having a large 

 horn in the tail. Two fpecies, of locufts breed here ; one with pur- 

 ple wings ; by cl ipping the horny cafes d-rongly together it makes a 

 fmart crack as it flies. The other is twice as large, the carcafe and 

 wings, of a yellow, fpotted with points a little darker. 



High wind from the Himdchal, which laded from three to night fall. 

 Thermometer at feven P. M. 56'. 



Auguft 19th.— Slight frofl. Thermometer 37*. March at 7. At 1300 

 paces, obferve that the two rivers which we eroded yeflerday join due 

 eaft about goo yards At 5000 commence afcending the gorge, and reach 

 the fummit of height which fhuts the valley. At 5240, arrive at a pile 

 of flones and defcend by a tolerably good road, on which were many 

 fmall fragments of different coloured jafper and white agate : to the right 

 is the river formed by two dreams, and now running parallel to our 

 line of march about 2| miles diftant. At 15,700 commence defcending : 

 Ihe town of Dumpu in light. This is built on a fleep eminence forming 

 part of a ridge ftretching from the fide of a mountain and Hoping to a 

 river, but rifing at lead 300 feet above the bed of the latter. Some 

 ruined buildings on another eminence are feparated from the town by 

 a deep glen, in which runs a dream of delicious water. The banks of 

 this water caurfe, cut into flcps or narrow beds, are now covered 



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