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Source of the Jumna. 
two-thirds of its size, and joins it here. Ascent to Bannasa , a 
small village, at the foot of a rocky mountain, a fall from which, 
last year, destroyed half the village. Angle of altitude of the 
mountain 40° 55'. Among the cliffs, and on the summit, I ob- 
served, with a telescope, many of a species of animal, peculiar to 
these elevated regions : it is called Pheir ; and, as a mountaineer 
in my service succeeded, after many toilsome chaces, in shooting 
one of them, I can give a description of its dimensions. 
Ft. In. 
Length, from the tip of the nose to end of the tail ; the length ) ^ ^ 
of the face being 11 inches, and of the tail 3 inches, i 
Height from shoulder to toe, - - - 3 2| 
Girth at the chest, - - - - 2 11| 
Ditto at the loins, - - - - 2 4 
Length of the hair at the shoulders 3 inches ; but, on the other parts 
of the body, it is short. 
u I preserved the skin and the bones of the head and horns, 
and presented them to the Most Noble the Governor General, 
who, I believe, sent them to Sir Joseph Banks. 
“ The face of the animal, which was a male, resembles that 
of the Nil Gao. The horns are large, the lower part of them 
stands nearly erect from the forehead, but the upper half bends 
backward. The hoofs are cloven. The colour is that of a camel or 
lion, and the long hair about the shoulders and neck somewhat 
resembles a lion’s mane. The flesh appeared coarse, and an un- 
pleasant musky smell exhaled from it. The Hindustanis would 
not touch it, but the Gordha sipahis , and mountaineer Coolies 
ate it with avidity. It is remarkable that those people will not 
eat mutton. The Pheir is a gregarious animal, and appears ta 
subsist on the short herbage at the edge of the snow. — The 
ehace of it, in its haunts on the cliffs and precipices, is most dif- 
ficult and dangerous ; but, in the depth of winter, when the 
snow drives them down to the villages, the people hunt and kill 
them more easily. 
<c In this neighbourhood, springs of hot water are very nu- 
merous ; they are seen bubbling up among the rocks in various* 
places near the rivers. The heat of the water is too great to 
bear the hand in it for many moments ; but, having broken my 
long- scaled thermometer, I could not ascertain its precise tem- 
perature. The water has little, if any taste. About half a 
