1848.] 



deputed to the Tibetan Frontier, 



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Date. 



25th Nov. 



Manasabal. 



No. of 



miles. 



13* 



Remarks. 



quity, only inferior to the temple on the 

 Takht-i-Suliman. I next visited the 

 Juma Masjid, to verify the'corrections of 

 my ground-plan, which makes the num- 

 ber of its pillars to be 402. I found my 

 plan quite correct. Beyond the present 

 city, amidst the ruins of the various Mo- 

 hallahs of the No-shehra, or new city of 

 former days, I found numerous columns 

 and vestiges of Hindu temples attached 

 to Muhammadan mosques and tombs. 

 But the most interesting was that of a 

 figure of Buddha, and three short rude 

 inscriptions of a few letters, each in the 

 Tibetan character. I can only account 

 for the occurrence of Tibetan letters by 

 supposing that there formerly existed on 

 this spot a temple built by Raja Rincha- 

 na, the Ladaki conqueror of Kashmir, 

 just previous to the Muhammadan pe- 

 riod. 



Road for 3* miles along the edge of 

 the Karewah of Pandachye ; thence 

 across a swamp for 3 miles, to the Sindh 

 river, which I crossed by boat near the 

 remains of a masonry bridge, of which 

 5 arches are still standing. Beyond this, 

 for three miles, the road lay through low 

 ground, occasionally swampy, to the vil- 

 lage of Bhoosa, on the edge of the Ka- 

 rewah, at the foot of the Ahathyung hill, 

 thence round the south and east sides of 

 the hill to the Manasa-bal lake. In the 

 afternoon I ascended the hill and picked 

 up hundreds of univalve shells, all of 

 one species. The highest point at which 

 I could discover any shells was 6,188 ft. 

 above the level of the sea, or upwards of 

 850 feet higher than the present level of 

 the Jehlam, and 118 feet higher than 

 the temple of Marttand, which stands on 

 the upper end of the Karewah of Matan, 

 land in the vallev 



the highest alluvial 



