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brightness of an unclouded sky. Proceeding a few miles beyond Sadiya, 

 it is soon perceived that the Sadiya peak is not a single tower rising high 

 into the skies, but has that appearance from its being the end of a wall- 

 like ridge running eastward, and indeed, when seen from the Suhatu Mukh, 

 its lofty peak is no longer to be distinguished with certainty in the long 

 wall, which reaches nearly to three-peaked Thigritheya. That mountain is 

 now finely developed, and the ruggedness of its outline, seen from this near 

 point of view, increases its improving effect. From hence, too, the heavy 

 snows before alluded to, north of Sadiya, which are scarce seen from the 

 station, overtopping the nearer ranges, are beheld stretching far to the east 

 and west, filling up the low gap near the issue of the Dibong to the plains, 

 and the direction from the opening of the Dihong affording an uninter- 

 rupted view up it to the N.W. affords a fine prospect of its faint and distant 

 groupe of snow-clad peaks. But the proximity of the northern mass of 

 mountains does not permit us to form any accurate idea of the disposition 

 of the further ranges, or of the nature of the country between us and 

 Thibet. 



When we reached the Kharam, we found that the floods of the rainy 

 season had re-opened a channel which had been long dry, and known as 

 the Mori, or dead river, by which expression they designate those 

 branches which, by the constant changes going on in these violent moun- 

 tain streams, have either dried up or lost their consequence. When within 

 the Kharam, the changes in the grouping of the peaks brings forward a 

 noble sugar-loaf peak, and those ranges near the Kund, now grown so 

 much nearer, look more wild and bold. A small telescope enabled me, at 

 Challa, to distinguish clearly a solitary pine here and there, stretching its 

 black area forth in the midst of the white field. 



The bark of the great deer, and the shrill cry of the fishing eagle alone 

 disturb the silence of these wilds. And a large insect, their inhabitant, 



