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NARRATIVE DURING A TOUR
that so great a deposit, would impede the navi-
gation of the Ganges; but there would be no
cause for such an apprehension; because, if
one-third of the whole stream of the Ganges
were open in the dry months, it would be
ample, and a greater space than there usually
is at that season; for, then, the river assumes
several channels, all of them necessarily shal-
low ; whereas, by conducting them to one bed,
it would be always deep, and therefore facilitate
the navigation.
On emerging from the woods towards even-
ing, we passed extensive fields of rice, and left
the broad river in which we have to-day made
our greatest progress, and are proceeding to-
wards Koolna, in a narrow channel, merging at
sunset into a broad smooth stream, with masses
of weeds, forming floating islands, vegetating on
the vivifying face of the waters, and forming the
retreat of the snow white Heron.
+
JDeccm&r 21sf. When we weighed anchor
last night, we crossed apparently a broad ex-
panse of water ; but the fog was so dense that
objects were invisible, and the Sevang's vocife-
ration, during the night, created an impression
that he thought himself in transit to another
planet. The scenery is here of another cast of
beauty; consisting of umbrageous trees, mixed
NARRATIVE DURING A TOUR
that so great a deposit, would impede the navi-
gation of the Ganges; but there would be no
cause for such an apprehension; because, if
one-third of the whole stream of the Ganges
were open in the dry months, it would be
ample, and a greater space than there usually
is at that season; for, then, the river assumes
several channels, all of them necessarily shal-
low ; whereas, by conducting them to one bed,
it would be always deep, and therefore facilitate
the navigation.
On emerging from the woods towards even-
ing, we passed extensive fields of rice, and left
the broad river in which we have to-day made
our greatest progress, and are proceeding to-
wards Koolna, in a narrow channel, merging at
sunset into a broad smooth stream, with masses
of weeds, forming floating islands, vegetating on
the vivifying face of the waters, and forming the
retreat of the snow white Heron.
+
JDeccm&r 21sf. When we weighed anchor
last night, we crossed apparently a broad ex-
panse of water ; but the fog was so dense that
objects were invisible, and the Sevang's vocife-
ration, during the night, created an impression
that he thought himself in transit to another
planet. The scenery is here of another cast of
beauty; consisting of umbrageous trees, mixed