86 Notes on the ***»» hhe district of Ladahh. [No. 2, 



a drained portion of that line of lake ; perhaps caused by some local 



slteration in the levels of the country. 



CDnrgo to Tankse is a distance of eight miles and the ; road 

 aufteTevel The stream is considerable and contains a small W of 

 II of wl hi saw numbers at the Durgo bridge. The road follows 

 le righl bank for nearly the whole distance, mountains rise to a great 



t . ; ie village of this name is large and a veryfiur area , 

 Ider cultivation-lucerne grass grows In— ly. Many oh 

 houses are built close under a large mass of conglomerate, the stones 

 fi l y cemented in it, and to this cause it must owe its present -- 

 tence at the month of the narrow gorge towards the Pangong, ? out of 

 w hich the soft beds have been washed away. The remains of an old 

 fortified post still cover the upper portion of tins conglomerate^ 

 The main stream comes from the southward, and drain, the Lung 

 Xnghma valley and the mountains on the north of the Indus ^ river 

 It I joined at Tankse by the small stream that drams the valley up 

 which! road to the Pangong runs ; this is at «**-;-£ 

 confined by the mountains that rise in cliffs on either bud, but wheie 

 it takes the more direct easterly direction it opens out considerably , 

 feh cliffs of the alluvial shingly deposits again occur, forming a belt at 

 foot of the mountains of the northern side about 300 feet h,gh and 

 some 400 yards distant from the stream. Muglib, where I halted, 

 about 11 miles from Tankse, is a very small place. At tins point . 

 broad belt of green pasture land extends along the valley, and through 

 it the little clear stream finds its way in a very tortuous course, bu 

 above Muglib this green belt becomes very swampy and on it several 

 Brahmini duck were seen. The stream above flowed over a stony 

 debris from the hills, with occasional patches of grassy and watery 

 ground, and at about three miles the road passes two little tarns; 

 these had been evidently larger at that season of the year when the 

 snows are melting, or after an extra amount of rain has fallen, lne 

 physical appearance of the whole length of this valley showed un- 

 Lstakable signs of its having at one period been the bed of a lake 

 and I am induced to think for a portion of that time continuous with 

 the portion below Tankse and that the mass of alluvial above Dingo 



