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Rh second, a much more vigorous fountain, was, when I tested it on my return journey, a good deal over blood-heat, and a considerable growth of vivid green weed flourishes in the warmth and wetness it provides. Beyond Lamda, Red Idol Gorge awaited us.

Red Idol Gorge is a peculiar feature—perhaps the



most peculiar feature—of the road between Phari and Gyantse. Turner in 1784 noted the curious turn which the river here makes in his map, but otherwise makes very little reference either to it or to any other natural feature of the road. Short as it is, however, his description is good enough. "We came at length