. Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries . faqueers rock. 27 The north face of the Faqueers Rock is excavated into a hollow of theDeo Dowar. It has no resemblance to a Gothic ruin, which form is, Ibelieve, peculiar to calcareous rocks. It is this rock which, by its easternextremity projecting into the water, forms the reservoirs into whichthe Deo-panee falls, or rather at this season runs ; the place resemblesmerely a sort of bay. The water-mark of floods visible on some ofthe rocks, is probably eight feet above that of this time of the
. Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries . faqueers rock. 27 The north face of the Faqueers Rock is excavated into a hollow of theDeo Dowar. It has no resemblance to a Gothic ruin, which form is, Ibelieve, peculiar to calcareous rocks. It is this rock which, by its easternextremity projecting into the water, forms the reservoirs into whichthe Deo-panee falls, or rather at this season runs ; the place resemblesmerely a sort of bay. The water-mark of floods visible on some ofthe rocks, is probably eight feet above that of this time of the reservoir is completed by a projection from the rocks forming thesouth bank, but it is almost entirely abstracted from the stream. Thesouth bank immediately beyond this is extremely precipitous, and veryhigh. The Faqueers Rock is three-peaked ; two peaks can only be seenfrom the Deo-panee, the third is the low one to the west, the middle isthe highest, and is perforated : the eastern represents a sugar-loaf ap-pearance. Two distinct streams run into the reservoirs, the bed of oneforms
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