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4. — As a whole I think that the Kashmirian architecture, with its 

 noble fluted pillars, its vast colonnades, its lofty pediments, and its ele- 

 gant trefoiled arches, is fully entitled to he classed as a distinct style. 

 I have therefore ventured to call it the "Arian order," a name to 

 which it has a double right ; firstly, because it was the style of the 

 Aryas or Arians of Kashmir ; and secondly, because its intercolumnia- 

 tions are always of four diameters, an interval which the Greeks called 

 Araiostyle. 



Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan (Rdkas Tal), Cho Mapan (Ma~ 

 nasarowar), and the valley of Pruang in Gnari, Hundes, in Septem- 

 ber and October 1846. By Henry Strachey, Lieut. 66th Regt. 

 Bengal N. I. 



(Concluded from page 182.) 

 \0th October. — Parties of Hunias, mostly Khampa, frequent Byans 

 at this time of the year, for the usual traffic, bringing sheep with salt 

 and borax to be exchanged for grain. One of these, now encamped at 

 Garbia, inform me that they are Khampa, natives of "Chang," i. e. 

 the province of which Digarcha is the capital ; Kham proper, the origi- 

 nal seat of their tribe, is a long way off, between U', i. e. the province of 

 which Lhassa is the capital, and Gyanak, i. e. China, and they know little 

 or nothing about that country, as their families have been long since 

 settled in the vicinity of Digarcha, and their trading excursions have 

 always been in this direction, away from Kham. 



Immediately east of the mountains which bound that side of Cho- 

 Mapan near the Sdmo-tohchim Tarjum, in the district of Hor Tol, rises 

 a stream, Chima-Yungdiing, so named from the profusion of the sand, 

 " Chima" which covers the ground about, probably the same granitic 

 debris that spreads for miles around the base of Momonangli. This 

 river flows eastward past Digarcha and Lhassa, and informants recog- 

 nize the name of " Brahmaputra," as applied to it by the Hindus of 

 Nipal ; or pretend to do so, for I am not sure that the Nipalese do iden- 

 tify the river as the Brahmaputra. 



The Gangri range of mountains subsides at Tankcham-Tarjum, the 

 next east from Sdmo-tokchim. Ilor Tol is Jang-tang, i. e., untilled 

 pasture ground, and belongs to the province of Gnari, subject to the 



