OF THE RIVER SETLEJ. 



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man may however travel it in twelve days. There are two routes, one by 

 Chaprang along the river, the other by Ga.ru, the distance is nearly equal, 

 but in the first, villages are met with, in the latter few, or none. The lake 

 Mapang he describes as either seven or four days journey in circumference 

 according to the season, and he maintains, how much soever questioned, 

 that four rivers originate from it:— 1. Tamja Kampa flows through Ussang ; 

 2. Many a Kampa through Purang ; 3. Lang Jing Kampa through Kanawer; 

 and 4. Sing Jing Kampa through Ladak. 



These he repeatedly asserted he had seen, and says that they proceed 

 from the four opposite corners of the lake. It is very extraordinary what 

 could be his motive for so pertinaciously asserting a fact of this kind, so 

 completely contradicted by Mr. Moorcroft's journey, and which no one can 

 believe to be other than some legend of their sacred books. There is a se- 

 cond lake, close to Mapang called Langa Cho ; it is smaller, but in the rainy 

 season they unite and form but one. The Setlej he states proceeds from the 

 great lake, and flows through the small one : a high peak called Gangri, and 

 covered with snow, is much venerated by Hindus. 



To Namja, was a distance of eight miles and three quarters, time of tra- 

 velling five hours and a half. The path is in general free from danger, and 

 Tiot very bad : a mile and a half from Dabling, we passed through Dubling, a 

 smaller village than the preceding. The gooseberry, rasberry, and dog-rose; 

 the poplar, walnut, and apricot trees were observed. Beyond Dubling, the 

 path descends to the river bed, along which it proceeds for some distance. 

 We had here an opportunity of observing how little it appeared diminished 

 in size, and of conjecturing the great distance of the source of so large a 

 body of water. The current was, comparatively speaking, smooth, and few 

 yocks obstructed it ; tjie mountains on our side had some slope, they were 

 composed of granite and quite bare, on the other side they rose up in a wall, 

 Cr scarp, of two thousand feet from the very water edge. The strata had a 



