*12 Mr. Fraser on the Himalay Mountains. 
most evidently composed of the same stone ; it never affects stratifi- 
cation, but in fracture and formation of every kind is quite irregular 
and amorphous. It shoots up into crags and spires, the sharpness 
and boldness of which amaze, but it seems to be entirely the effect 
of chance, and not at all to arise from any disposition of the rock to 
form such in particular, for there are many forms of a round and bold 
nature in another style. 
It is not intended to describe this spot, awfully desert as it is, nor 
to depict the dreadful passes by which we arrived at it, taking leave 
as it were of this world and entering on one of so novel and hideous, 
though interesting a nature. This was the extent of our travels into 
the Himalay mountains, and if I may at all trust to the information 
I received, Roodroo Himalay, the mountain whence the Bhagiruttee 
flows, is one of the remotest of the whole, and a very short journey 
would have carried me through the whole range of snow into the 
precincts of China. Thus the specimens taken at Gungotree may be 
considered as fair samples of one of the remotest and loftiest of the 
Himalay range. 
Two days journey below Gungotree, on our return, stratification 
was again observed, and the rocks gradually returned to the former 
usual sorts, and so continued without any material change ^ill we 
regained the plains. 
