ABout the 77th mile stone we get to the Srenagar Elective Power Station. This is run by water power. the water is brought in a thing they called a spunce??? but which is actually only a sort of wooden box about 6ft swuare for six miles when is gets to the power station it is some 400 ft above it the water drops slick down. The current is carried by unsightly verhied??? poles which hug the road on the side + the other except where they can take a short cut by leaving it, all the way to Baraniulle + I suppose to Srenagar.
The scenery is much more spe??? from Rampur where we had tea, + the road is practically on a level with the river instead of being some hundreds of feet above it. The river changes from a rushing torrent to a wide placid stream, and there were two or three dredgers about which are excavating the river bed to improve the drainage of the valley + to prevent floods.
About 6.0 we reached Baramulla where we found Lamonts bearer waiting for us (he had been sent on ahead) but no house boat though it was said to be on its way down + likely to arrive in an hour.
However an hour went by + Dinner Time came but no house boat, so we had Dinner at the Dark Bungalow + as there was still aw?? house boat we decided to sleep in the Dark Bungalow.
The road along which we had been 128 miles in the last two days was begun in 1880 + finished in 1890