text: " The voyage down the Jumna to its junction with the Ganges at Allahabad a distance of not more than 550 miles by land but which the endless windings of the stream increase to 2010 by water presents few incidents worthy of notice: but our traveller observes _par parenthese_ that "though it is said that the sources of this river have not been discovered I have heard from those who have crossed the Himalaya from China that it rises in that country on the other side of the mountains and forcing its way through them arrives at Bighamber