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tains, which have fcarcely any vegetable upon, them, and are rapidly 

 frittering into fragments. Weare now about one-third of the Ch ti 

 which feparates i&W^/?^ from Tatary. Mountains are lefs high and 

 bold than thofe farther on in Butan. Two yaks have been left behind 

 from fatigue* although the m irch h >s not been long, yet parts have been 

 very d ill re fling The rivulet or rather river (for when it fills its channel 

 it wchdeferves thjs n tme,) is culLd Chang lit. It is formed by three or 

 four br inches, which iffue from the heights below the N;ii":G/idii,.m4 ' 

 it-difembogues itfelf into the 'Setlfj 



Auguft 29th.— Thermometer 2Q\ Hardfrofl ; and very cold to our . 

 feelings. Leave our ground at ten A. M. *• Ar-3745 paces reach the b-d 

 of, the river near which we halted on the fir ft day, after croffi ig the 

 Ghiti, in our road -to Ddbd. The name of this is Jandu. It rifes N, 85 

 Wi and runs. N. 80E. to the SetUj. The banks are formed by flupen- 

 doufly lofty mountains. At 6125 reach the Ghatl, which feparates : Bu- 

 tan from the Uades, and which has upon it a large pile of (tones, the 

 offering of travellers, f amounted by rags in token of the vicl -jry they 

 atehieved in reaching fo. great a height. Tiie GhMUis about a half mile 

 broad, almoit without.any vegetable. The wind from the Butan moun* 

 tains covered with f now is irioft piercingly cold, We turned out of 

 the road, to the .left hand, and, in order to fave a little diitance, 

 fcaled an afeent which co ft us double in time. One of the yaks, which 

 had fa^en from a precipice a few days before, and recived fuca a 

 ihock as rend red him unfit for carrying a load, after he had afcend- 

 ed a few fteps, fuddenly returned, and ran downwards towards the I 

 river as rabidly as the badnefs of the road would admit, arid fafter than 

 any one who has never feen thefe animals travel over crags would 

 f up pole po.fiible. I hid got upon a Jabu (or mule between a yak and 

 a cow), S:c. was bringing up the rear. The ani.n.il charged m », and 



