when, like the antient travellers, ihe was benighted and bewildered
on her way :
A thoufand fantafies
Begin to throng into my memory
Of calling ihapes, and beck’ning ihadows dire
And aery tongues, that fyllable men’s names
On lands and ihores, and defert wildernefies.
T w o Streams
of the G anges.
SlRINAGUR.
G iA C rE R E S ,
T o return:— A little beyond Latac, the river fuddenly bends
towards the fouth-eaft, and after near a hundred miles courfe
receives the branch of the Ganges which flows from the lake
Lanken: the courfe ftill continues inclining to the eaft; it paffes
through a gap in the Himmaleh chain, which forms the Gan-
geutra juft mentioned; this word fignifies a cafcade o f the
Ganga or Ganges.
T he river from hence is called the Bagbyretty; it pafies
along the weitern foot of the great chain, through the fertile
Rajahjbip of Sirinagur, environed with lofty wooded mountains
; the trees very large, on this fide covered with thofe of
the country only; on the other with European trees, fuch as
oak, walnut, cherry, peach, ralpberry, fee. fee. Many of the
hills are very high, of a fugar-loaf fhape, covered with a fmooth
and verdant turf, and have a flatted top; they rife to a great
height one above the other, and are crowned on the fummit of
each with a village. - From the fummit Mr. Daniell faw the
Glacieres of India, which made a moft' majeftic and awful appearance
even at the diftance o f a hundred and fifty miles.
The ice rifes often into lofty fpires on the grandeft of fcales;
a the
the light fides were ftained in the moft elegant manner with a
rofeate color. Another great river, called the Alucmundra, which
rifes far amidft the mountains of Thibet, joins the Bagbyretty
at Deuprag. Here Mr. Rennel, on the authority o f Mr. Daniell,
places a middle Gangoutra. A few miles below the city o f Sirinagur
it aflumes the name of Ganges, and retains it the reft
o f its courfe : it flows through the remainder of Sirinagur to
Hurdwar, where it ruihes through another Gangoutra, through
a gap in the Sewalic chain, unheard of before, till pointed out
to us by the inveftigation of Mr. Daniell: As to the Alucmun-
dra, he reprefents it as a river confined through a rocky channel
only a hundred yards wide, and o f immenfe rapidity, and
croffed by rope bridges o f peculiar conftruilions.
Mr. Daniell's travels in this part of Hindoojlan were attended
with great difficulties, but with all the pleafure that muft attend
the elegant mind o f the fine artift. In this part of his journey
he crofied the Ganges, in about Lat. 28° 3o', to Sumbrul; eafterly
to Darunaghur, Afulgbur, Nejigabad, and the Hurdwar; from
thence he returned through the foreft at the foot of the Sewalic
mountains to Loldong, continued his arduous route to Condawar
Ghaut, entered the pafs there, and made a fix day’s journey
over the mountains to Sirinagur. What a feafi may the public
expe£t of intellectual and vifual entertainment from the production
of a pencil, of which they have had already a tafte &
fully fatisfa&ory.
Hurdwar is feated to the weft fouth-weft of Sirinagur, amidft
moft pidturefque mountains of conic form. I have feen a
drawing taken on the fpot r it is the great refort of the Hindoos,
who flatter themfelves that it is the fource of their venerated
ftream.