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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1853

1854

The rocks on the crest of Siugaleelah at the pass are of horizontal gneiss castellated and shattered by the frost on the right hand side of the pass the rock has been worn into the very image of a man sitting with his hands upon his knees dressed in a robe and crowned with a Scotch cap with a conspicuous tuft on its top. [...] The dip of the strata upon the Gubroo ridge being to the soutvest and the northern face of the ridge being nearly precipitous a great flow of water takes place towards the south the whole stifitee of the mountain is divided with numerous steppes each steppe having pools of water resting upon them averaging from one hundred to four hundred yards broad—and many of them surrounded by steep [...] Campbell and Hooker when travelling iu his country—which together with the Rajah's refusal to deliver up his DCW:111) the principal instigator in the outrage and on which account the two Morung Purgunnahs lying at the foot of the hills and yielding a yearly revenue of 23 000 rupees and that portion of the hills now known as the Darjeeling Territory and for which the Rajah received 3 000 per ann [...] On both sides of the aisle were ranged felt seats raised a foot from the ground upon these the twenty Lamas took their seats and opened the ceremony by chanting a hymn and finer bass.voices I never heard ; an old Lama sat near the altar on the right hand side and immediately in front of him and standing in the centre of the aisle was a figure dressed in the defunct Lamas clothes a crash of cymb [...] To our annoyance we found that all the cane-bridges over the Kullait bad been cut away to prevent any of the people from lice and the neighbouring clearances crossing to Pemionchi the whole of the inhabitants near the southern bank of the river being more or less affected with dysentery such is the horror and alarm with which that complaint is viewed by these people.
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Pages
116
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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