491 A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



now covered with verdure; and many of the plants going to feed. 

 The. white, yellow, and red flowering ftrawberry have bore abundance 

 of flowers, but only a cone of feed without any pulp. Whether in a 

 more kindly foil, they would produce fruit may be worth trying. 



September iff. — Thermometer 36* . March at eight by the fame route 

 we came. Defcend the deep Gkdti to the bed of the DauU. One of 

 the yaks could not be driven round the project. ion of rock which led to 

 it, butrefolutely charged back again in fpite of flicks and (tones. The 

 Unfas went by a lower load along the fkep face of thief acK The 

 fiream of the DauUwm very rapid and reached half w:v <.',: be 3 - k V 

 fhoulder. After -having gone alxmt a hundred yards, .perpendicular 

 rocks dipping into the 'river, compelled them to crofs afgafri to the right 

 bank, and a third eroffing took place immediately above iht S& ga s 

 which was fo bad that our men were afraid of going along it e*'e& wi:h. 

 very light loads. Their apprehenfions were reafonable enough-; for the 

 S'anga was made only of two loofe flicks of fir, withh rge loofe ftones 

 floped nearly in the angle of 45 . At '6 100 paces, the Diid'i meets the 

 ft re am which comes from benind the Nzri'NdrdgSi Ptitbnt near Bhadrt- " 

 ndt'h; This river is larger than the Dau r i. ' Of the twd arches of mow, 

 whicH f'«y. over the river as we palled Before, one' had diflblved, and • 

 nothing remained but the abutments ; the other was entire and Piillof 

 great thicknefs. The road was almoff as bad as poflible. Indeed it -is 

 fcarcely in the power of imagination to fuppofe, that Tu'crfa" furface 

 could be trodden by men and cattle, without their being precipitated 

 into the DaulV, which rolled a tremendous current at the foot of the 

 flope 5 over which, the path run (if that could be with any propriety * 

 called fuch a name, when effaced in many places by recent flips, and 

 in others by blocks of {lories, f.>r nearly a quarter of a mile together.) 

 This was a march of difafter. TLe y ks, in inclining their bodies to- 



