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colore pulchre fusco, maculis aterrimis, capite magno ;* has all 

 the appearance of being venomous. To-day we passed another place 

 for catching fish : the water is prevented from escaping, (except at 

 the place where the current is naturally most violent,) by a dam com- 

 posed of bamboos, supported by triangles, from the centre of which 

 hang heavy stones : the fish are prevented passing down except at 

 the above spot, and here they are received on a platform of bamboo : 

 the stream is so strong through this point, that when once the fish 

 have passed down they are unable to return. One of these fish-traps 

 on a larger scale exists below Palampan. 



The Karam debuts from the hills a little to the S. of east of Jing- 

 sha Ghat : the chasm is very distinct. Temperature at 2 p.m. 87°, 

 at sunset 76°, 8 p.m. 68°. 



Oct. 2\st. — Left the Ghat about 9, and proceeded over the same 

 difficult ground down the Karam until we arrived at Laee Mookh. 

 This occupied about an hour ; our course thence lay up the Laee, 

 which runs nearly due east. The bed of the river throughout the 

 lower part of its course is 60 or 70 yards across : the journey was 

 as difficult as that on the Karam. Towards 2 p.m. we were close 

 to the hills, and the river became contracted, not exceeding 30 

 or 40 yards across. It is here only that large rock masses are to be 

 found, but the boulders are in no case immense. We arrived at the 

 place of our encampment about 4 p.m., the porters coming up much 

 later. The march was in every respect most fatiguing. Temper- 

 ature about 6 a.m. 58°, outside 57°. Water 60°. Temperature 

 of Laee at sunset 66°. Of the air 71°. 



Oct. 22nd. — Cloudy : during the night we were much annoyed by 

 heavy gusts of wind sweeping down the river. Left our encampment 

 at 7|-, and struck into the jungle, the porters still continuing along the 

 course of the river ; after crossing some rising ground we reached a 

 path, which is tolerably good. Our course lay about N.E. ; we crossed 

 over some low hills, and after marching for about an hour and a quar- 

 ter, came upon the Koond Chasm, or great defile ; of which, however, 

 from the thickness of the jungle, we had no view. We then descend- 

 ed a very steep, but not very high hill, and came upon the Koond ; 

 of which nothing is at first seen but large masess of rock strew- 

 ed in every direction. We were accompanied by a number of 

 Jingsha Gam's people, and in the evening we were visited by Tapan 



* Trigonocephalies mucrosquamatus, afterwards described in Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1839, Fid. Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. I , p. 77. 



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