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great Rhododendron®, willowt, and mountain afh with brown berries. 

 The road was extremely bad ; and the trouble we had from the fal- 

 ling off of the loads, and from our yak cows and calves ftraying up the 

 mountains, and down the fides of ftupendous precipices, when it was 

 fcarcely poffible for them to fix one claw, is not to be conceived. It 

 was nearly night when I reached Ntti, notwith (landing Amr Singh 

 brought feveral yaks to aflift us. The lame yak was brought to Gotang, 

 and there left to recruit in the abundant pafture of that place ; that, 

 which had fallen into a nook of rock near the river, could not be 

 found. The upper part of Butin is now fuffering much from fcarcity 

 of grain, in confequence of the Juaris and Bharmis plundering the 

 Gungaris, or people living on the banks of the Ganges within the hills, 

 who were in the habits of bringing up the grain they raifed, and that 

 which they procured from below. 



September 4th. — Thermometer 54*. in the morning ; 80 8 at noon. In 

 the afternoon there was a fall of rain accompanied by thunder. At 

 night Thermometer 54 . The goofeberry buQies, which were in flow- 

 er when we were here before, are now full of fruit, of which only a few 

 are ripe. They are, as I conjectured, of the burgundy kind, but fmall % 

 and the pulp is much fmaller than that of England in proportion to the 

 bulk of the feed ; but this may be remedied by cultivation* Of cur- 

 rants I found two varities, one orange coloured with fmall fruit In 

 fmall clutters, the other of a dark purple or rather nearly black in large 

 bunches from a tree, with bark like that of. the black currant in 

 England, but with the flavour of the red one, only more acid. This 

 morning we fent to announce to the Seydnas, that we had arrived* were 

 anxious to depart, and were in want of provifions. In the evening: 



Rhododendron puu'ceum. Rax* i Salts tetr«frer<na; #«.*•„ 



