Account of Captain Hodgson’s Journey to the Jumna. 7 
of Europe, who were proud to enrol such a name in the list of 
their members. We look forward, with high expectations, to the 
memoir of his life, which may soon be expected from the elo- 
quent pen of Baron Cuvier. 
Art. II. — Account of Captain Hodgson’s Journey to the 
Source of the Jumna, and of the Snow Excavations at Jum- 
notri, formed by the Steam of Hot Springs *. 
I shall now proceed to give some account of the course of 
the river Jumna , within the mountains, and of its spring at Jum- 
notri , which I also visited this year. In the maps published 
ten years ago, the Jumna is laid down as having a very long 
course from the latitude of 34J°. It was not known, until the 
year 1814, that the Jumna , properly so called, was a compara- 
tively small river above its junction with the Tonse in the Dun, 
and I believe the existence of the latter river, though fully 
treble the size of the Jumna , was unknown to Europeans. 
66 The junction of the Tonse and Jumna takes place at the 
NW. end of the Dun valley, in Lat. 30° 30', where the large 
river loses its name in that of the small one, and the united 
stream is called the Jumna. The course of the Jumna from 
Jumnotri , which is in Lat. 30° 59', is generally south 50° 
west. It is fordable above the confluence, but the Tonse is 
not. Not having yet visited the sources of the Tonse , I am 
not certain whether it rises within the Himalaya , as the Hhagi- 
rathi does, or at its S W., or exterior base, like the Jumna ; but 
the latter I believe to be the case. I apprehend that three 
considerable streams, which, like the Jumna , originate from the 
south faces of the Himalaya , in the districts of Barasa , Leuio- 
wari , and Deodar a Kowarra, join to form the Tonse ; and it 
receives a considerable accession of water from the Faber river, 
which I imagine to be equal in size to any of the three above- 
mentioned feeders. Respecting them, I have at present only 
native information to guide me, but of the Faber I can speak 
with more confidence; for, when in June 1816, I penetrated 
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