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part of its crest connected with WangUo, by a succession of peaks, was 

 still further east on our right hand. Beyond the Dapha, at no great 

 distance on the north, the Beacon now bore three hundred and thirty 

 N. thirty W., and a high wall of mountains, capped with snow, followed, 

 stretching eastwards to some distance, and then turning south, giving rise 

 to the Dapha and Diking on this side, and to several rivers flowing into 

 the Irdwadi, on the other. 



We passed nothing extraordinary on the descent, but a beech and fig 

 tree, the latter producing very large fruit ; and some sweet scented violets. 

 At the bottom, we emerged from the jungle on a beautiful little plain, 

 covered with short grass and fern hills, abruptly rising on either side to a 

 majestic height, and some deeply clothed in snow closing the distance. 

 We halted on the banks of the Dapha, at a spot frequented by hundreds 

 of deer, elephants, and monkies. The former were too wild to allow us to 

 shoot one. 



We were still five thousand four hundred and thirty-one feet above 

 the sea. Some idea may be formed of the rapid and tumultuous current 

 of the Dapha, from the circumstance of its falling three thousand 

 nine hundred and eight feet, in twenty miles of its course from 

 hence to Kumhu, where I have already stated the altitude as one 

 thousand five hundred and fifty-three feet above the sea. We saw a new 

 fruit of the plumb kind, with a very thin skin and good flavor ; and some 

 wild lichis. A good observation gave the latitude 27° 31' 20". 



The next march was, for some distance, nearly east along the boul- 

 ders of the edge, or in the track of wild elephants in the jungle; then 

 turning more south, after the separations of the Dapha into two branches, 

 we crossed the left branch by wading, where it is fifteen yards broad, and 

 commenced our ascent up the great pass. We halted at two o'clock in 



