An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

!;;B GOT AN. 169remains of snow upon it, even so late as Midsummer-day ; and I onceintended, as a frolic, to go and make snow-balls there during the dogdays.And here 1 cannot help remarking, that something like a feelingof vexation has constantly occurred to me, on coming to the top ofevery mountain I had yet ascended. While struggling, and almostexhausted with fatigue, there is a spur which yet animates to the lasteffort ; and the mind anticipates, with some delight, the unboundedview with which it will be presented ; but how great is the disappointment,when, after all, you see on every side around you, mountainsstill higher than that on which you stand ; whilst all the space that isvisible, isthat only which intervenes between themSo pleased at first the tow'ring alps we try,Mount o'er the vales, and seem totread the skyTh' eternal snows appear already past.And the firstclouds and mountains seem the lastBut, those attained, we tremble to surveyThe growing labours of the lengthen'd way,Th' increasing prospect tiresour wandering eyes,Hills peep o'er hills,and alps on alps arise.From our present situation, however, we enjoyed a more extensiveprospect than any we had yet seen ; and it gave me an opportunity oftaking the bearings of many objects.There were few that I have notbefore noticed, except a monastery named Phajudee, situated to the rightupon the same range of mountains, belonging to Lam' Rimbochay, and