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wards the mountain to prevent their flipping into the river, ft ruck their 

 loads againfl portions of rock, and tore the packages. At every hun« 

 d red yards, there was a cry of fomething being wrong. The people 

 anxious to get over the dangers and difficulties of the march, in oppofitt- 

 on to what [could fay, perilled in driving the catile too fad. The day was 

 very hot ; and the yaks, opprelTed by the heat, the weight of their bur- 

 thens, and the incefTtnt calling and flinging of [tones, found no more 

 effectual way of efcaping from thefe annoyances, than by running 

 down the al mod perpendicular face of the rock and dafhing into the 

 cold dream. Sometimes by the flipping of the foil they fell into the 

 water with forne violence, and after cooling them felves, to my great 

 mortification, generally lod their loads in climbing over ftonesto regain 

 the road, At three reached our ground ; and in the evening, I had the 

 mortification to learn, that two yaks in the lad detachment could not 

 be brought forward, One had flipped into a niche in the bank of the 

 river and could not g. t up; and the other had b come fo very lame, as 

 to be. -unable to pais over the fharp edged blocks of Rone which lay in 

 the road; At night thermometer *j6'. 



September 2d. — Halt ztGotang. Thermometer 56 . At' night, "54". 



September 3d. — Thermometer 44*. March at to A. M. The fight 

 of trees is extremely pleafing after our being fo lonjabfent from them 

 The rhubarb liad now run to feed, I Cut up many roots, bet found 

 the whole more or lefs fpOngy and rotten. From the holes I have 

 feen in the Turkey rhubarb, and its irregular knobby form, I apprehend 

 that this is its ufual hvbit ; gentian is met with in great abundance, is 

 called here Catci and given in infufion to goats and flieep; mod es- 

 pecially, when, in travelling towards Hindu/Ian, they are fuppofed to 

 be diftrefled by heat. The woods here are c.impofei of birch, the 



