T«E HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS, J)5* 
•leM*'*! traveller, after casting a glance ever the ge- 
Jui ^“'"^scape, is the source of the river. Here, as at 
So f you are told that no mortal has gone, or can 
tl)g towards its extreme origin than this spot ; and 
Sain is indeed very apparent. I made a tidal to 
I'op point about two furlongs beyond the temple, both 
of ’® purpose of observing the course of the river, and 
ing Gungotree in another point of view. But hav- 
't'lst I ponsiderable difficulty made my way over the 
of fragments for some hundred yards, at the risk 
tn,.|i precipitated into the stream, I was forced to 
T] 
farice f miles horizontal dis- 
*'®arl temple, and in a direction south-east, 85® 
®Hief|^,’ . i’eyond this place it is in all probability 
stio^y' ?VPP'fr*i l>y tl’.e melting of the great bosom of 
tile n"i terminates the valley, and which lies between 
Phis * of the great mountain above mentioned, 
aiii} up '^uuntain, which is considered to be the loftiest 
^ably w snowy range in this quarter, and pro- 
® iu whole Himalaya, obtains the 
Or poti*! fruodroo Himala, and is hel<] to be the throne 
, Kteneu ..PA, , j,. mdiscrimi- 
from its five peaks; and 
'*“telu" “P Muhadeo himself. 
0. y called Pauch Purbut, 
~ ^ « W.J «•••.. CAttS.! 
Uioimt ■ which is not to be confounded ivith 
^he called near Bunderbouch ; and sometimes 
®PP®^fr*^io‘t of Kylas is given, which literaljy 
Way y snowy liill, but is applied to this mountain 
'‘'tiled P'‘e-eminence. It has five principal peaks, 
Burmmpooree, Bisseniiooree, 
of Soorga Rounee. These form a 
hollow of very considerable extent, 
'0 lower snow, from the gradual dissolution ''i 
^’'’O'ated . ' which the jirincipal part of the stream 
till 
the', I?'‘'hably there may be smaller hollows be- 
*"l’!''ya f’fiht above GungotrCe, which also 
\ portion: 
C-.'.: "h"' the tn. 
i "*' 'tnd '■®'”Ph-“ there are three images : one, fcliat ot 
IjlOr.el _ e I, *1 
Nri' 
>V 
i he 
elevated stone shelf on which tliey were 
'L^ '^pocuj:„? Soiled with the ofFerin^^s made: there 
ings 1 
* T 1 know not whence it proceeded. 
’ ‘S usual, was lighted by a email lamp: no 
