1848.] 



deputed to the Tibetan Frontier. 



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Bate. 



10th Oct. Tharu 



11th 



12th 



Bazgo. 



Saspul 



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Remarks. 



vations were made during the morning : 

 and during the eclipse the observations 

 were made every quarter of an hour, to 

 note the abstraction of heat. 



At \\ mile from Le reached the 

 new fort on the plain built by Vazir 

 Zorawar Singh. It is a square of 200 

 yards with round towers at the corners 

 and in the middle of each curtain. 

 The walls are built of huge sun-dried 

 bricks ; — they are about 20 feet in 

 height, and are loopholed all round. 

 The fort is well supplied with water 

 inside, as it stands on the left bank of 

 the Le rivulet. There are 4 good 3- 

 pounder brass guns with serviceable 

 carriages and 30 well dressed artillery 

 men. At 1 mile beyond the fort, 

 passed a gibbet with the skeleton of a 

 Boti-man hanging from it. He was 

 executed six years ago by the Governor 

 for killing a bullock. At 4 miles passed 

 the village of Pitak. Just above this 

 village there is an immense mass of 

 indurated clay in horizontal layers, an 

 undoubted lacustrine formation. At 

 9 miles crossed the Phiang rivulet 

 leaving the village and monastery of 

 Phiang one mile to the north. 



Road over undulating stony ground 

 for 3 miles ; then a rough and sandy 

 descent of 1 mile down a dry ravine 

 to the level cultivated lands of Nvimo, 

 a large scattered village opposite the 

 junction of the Zauskar river with the 

 Indus. Thence for 3 miles over bar- 

 ren stony ground to the fields of Bazgo 

 and then throngh the cultivation to the 

 village. 



Road for 1 mile through the fields 

 of Bazgo : thence over barren undu- 

 lating ground interrupted by dry 

 ravines for two miles. Then down a 



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