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

300 TIBET.Having now conducted the river, on which I looked down, to thetermination of its course, I must not take my leave, without payingsome further respect to this distant traveller, and marking, at the sametime, the veneration attached to these celebrated sister streams, theBerhampooter and the Ganges. The common source of both, is thelake Maunserore; situated, as I was informed, a montii's journeynorth-west from Teshoo Loomboo. Separating at their origin, theyflow in nearly opposite directions, one towards the east, the other tothe west.It is the fate of the Berhampooter, to penetrate, in a tortuous course,a rude climate and most stubborn soil, till at length it quits Tartary,and forcing a passage through the frontier mountains of Assam, entersthe eastern boundary of Bengal.The Ganges, by a different course, seeks the milder climate, andmore productive plains of Hindostan ; no sooner disengaging itselffrom the embarrassment of mountains, after having passed the Cow'sMouth, and quitted Hurdewar, than it is met by the adoration of supplianttribes, and receives the homage of the bordering nations, as itflows along ; fertilizing the lands it washes, enriching their inhabitants,and bearing the wealth of India in itsaims.In the temperature of the seasons in Tibet, a remarkable uniformityprevails, as well as in their periodical duration and return.The samedivision of them takes place here, as in the more southern regionof Bengal. The spring is marked from March to May, by a variableatmosphere ; heat, thunder storms, and, occasionally, with refreshingshowers. From June to September is the season of humidity, when