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TIBET. 
Having now conducted the river, on which I looked down, to the 
termination of its course, I must not take my leave, without paying 
some further respect to this distant traveller, and marking, at the same 
time, the veneration attached to these celebrated sister streams, the 
Berhampooter and the Ganges. The common source of both, is the 
lake Maunserore; situated, as I was informed, a month’s journey 
north-west from Teshoo Loomboo. Separating at their origin, they 
flow in nearly opposite directions, one towards the east, the other to 
the west. 
It is the fate of the Berhampooter, to penetrate, in a tortuous course., 
a rude climate and most stubborn soil, till at length it quits Tartary, 
and forcing a passage through the frontier mountains of Assam, enters 
the eastern boundary of Bengal.. 
The Ganges, by a different course, seeks the milder climate, and 
more productive plains of Hjndostan ; no sooner disengaging itself 
from the embarrassment of mountains, after having passed the Cow’s 
Mouth, and quitted Hurdewar, than it is met by the adoration of sup¬ 
pliant tribes, and receives the homage of the bordering nations, as it 
flows along; fertilizing the lands it washes, enriching their inhabitants, 
and bearing the wealth of India in its arms. 
In the temperature of the seasons in Tibet, a remarkable uniformity 
prevails, as well as in their periodical duration and return. The same 
division of them takes place here, as in the more southern region 
of Bengal. The spring is marked from March to May, by a variable 
atmosphere; heat, thunder storms, and, occasionally, with refreshing 
showers. From June to September is the season of humidity, when 
