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measuring it, I shall now endeavour to give some idea of the probable 

 height of Mansurowur Lake. 



The Sutlej has a variety of names, being called Sutlooj, Sutroodra, 

 Sumudrung, Sampoo, Langzhing-kampa, Muksung, and Zung-tee in 

 different parts of its course ; Sutroodra is most commonly used, by 

 which name it is known from its source to the plains. In the Koona- 

 wur language, the words Sampoo, Sumudrung, Kampa, Muksung and 

 Tee, all signify river. Zung means gold, and with the addition of the 

 latter word is applied to the stream at a sandy place near Murung, 

 where gold dust is found. By the accounts of many people who have 

 travelled along its bank to its source, it issues from Lake Rawunrud, 

 called also Rawathud and Lanka, which was confidently said by every 

 body I saw that had been there, to communicate with Mansurowur, 

 although Mr. Moorcroft could not dicover the outlet of the latter lake ; 

 the circuit of Rawunrud was represented to be no less than seven days' 

 journey, but it is most likely both lakes were included. 



From Nirt to Sundum Sango under Numgeea, the horizontal dis- 

 tance by the map is seventy- two miles, although by the road it is 

 almost 140, the difference of level of the bed of the Sutlej in this space 

 is about 5,690 feet, which gives the fall of the river nearly eighty feet 

 per mile in a direct line, from Numgeea to Mansurowur, which is placed 

 agreeably to Major Hearsey, (I fancy not far from the truth, as its 

 position with regard to Shipke agrees well with the accounts I received,) 

 the horizontal distance is about 167 miles ; if therefore only thirty-five 

 feet per mile be allowed for the fall of the river from Numgeea up- 

 wards, it will give the extreme height of Mansurowur or Mapang Lake 

 above 14,000 feet, and I am inclined to think this estimate rather under 

 the truth than otherwise, for Mansurowur is unquestionably very 

 elevated, from the circumstance of four large rivers, and perhaps five, 

 taking their rise in that quarter. 



1st. — The Sutlej issuing from the lake itself. 



2d. — The Sind or Sing-kechoo, known likewise by the name of Sind- 

 ke Kampa, has its source N. E. of Mansurowur. It is described as a 

 very large river, and the principal branch of the Indus, being frequently 

 called Attuk even near Caroo, three marches to the eastward of which 

 it passes, running close south of the capital of Ludak, and three or 

 four days' journey to the northward of the valley of Kashmeer. 



