9G Notes on the Pangong lake district of LadaLJi. [No. 2, 



These all lying close to the water's edge are very recent, as evidenced 

 by being so well defined. But as a proof that the waters of the 

 Pangong lake in former times have fallen below its present level, I 

 may° state that on a long point of land in the little bay of Phtaook 

 in deep very clear water, I looked down upon a terrace 10 feet below 

 the surface which terminated in a cliff, where the stratification of 

 the sand and clays could be well seen, the bottom was not visible 

 beyond this, and it was too far out to sound the depth. This would 



be the section, 



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The only deduction to make from such comparatively recent changed 

 is, that the level of its waters has been alternating with moist 

 and dry periods of time, the slow process of which may be even now 

 going on almost imperceptible to man : the water of the Pangong 

 depending as it does mainly on the winter snow, (query, may not 

 the snow-fall in this part of the Himalayas be much less now than 

 formerly ?) and the country passing through a period of diminishing 

 falls. Slow as such changes may be, they are by no means impro- 

 bable or impossible. The western end of the Pangong Tsolies as nearly 

 as possible in latitude 34° and longitude 78° 30', thence its direction 

 is due south-east to latitude 34 c 40', it then takes a bend easterly 



