JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



APRIL, 1848. 



Itinerary from Phari in Thibet, to Lassa, with appended Routes from 

 Darjeeling to Phari. — By A. Campbell, M. D. Superintendent of 

 Darjeeling. 



One more contribution to conjectural Geography in the form of an 

 unpretending Itinerary, will not, I hope, incense the votaries of real Geo- 

 graphy, and may less or more interest the members of the Society, as 

 an attempt to familiarise them with a neighbouring country which is so 

 little known to us, yet of such importance to be acquainted with. 

 Phari or Pharidzong, is a frontier mart of Eastern Thibet, well known 

 to the people of Sikim and Bootan, and to which there are other routes 

 through the Himalaya proper, or snowy range, from both those countries. 

 It is placed by Hamilton, from Turner, in Latitude 27° 48' N. Longi- 

 tude 89° 14 7 E., and Lassa by the same authority in Lat. 29° 30' N. 

 Long. 91° 6 ; E. Darjeeling is in Lat. 27° N. and Long. 88° 28 ; E. The 

 itinerary therefore extends over 2-J- degrees of Latitude, and two de- 

 grees 38 miles of Longitude, according to Hamilton, who however 

 must probably give way to the later authorities of Europe, in the posi- 

 tions assigned to Phari and Lassa. The routes have been compiled 

 with care, to procure the knowledge possessed by the informants. This 

 is always a difficult task when done through interpreters, and when 

 tried with illiterate and not very observant people, is laborious and dis- 

 couraging. Mr. Hodgson has, by his notes and remarks, greatly 

 elucidated the details of the itinerary, and has kindly allowed me to 

 attach them to it. 



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