'A B^URYZY OF KEMAOON, 



fufficient for a fir^ rate line of battle fiiip to ride at anchor. Lieut. 

 Stephen, who had a fmall canoe oft the lake, ftruck foundings in 64 

 feet or nearly 11 fathoms, about the central parts, and the banks fhelve 

 very rapidly. 



'Approximation e; the pofition of the pafs leading to Tadacot is 

 already given by my furvey ; the diredion of Tadacot was pointed to 

 me north 82^ eaft from thence, and its dillance from the eaflern defcent 

 is one day*s journey for laden goa's; the above bearing, with a horizon* 

 tal diftance of eighf miles from thefummitof the pafs, cannot give a- 

 very erroneous pofition to Tadacot, 



Thb dire8;ion of ManfarovBJr was alfo defcribed to me by many- 

 perrons, who had vilited it to be about north 30° eaft from Tadacot and 

 the diftance two day*s journey, for laden goats, which as the road is 

 level may perhaps be 14 miles* 



By this information 1 have affigned, what I imagine to be the geo- 

 graphical pofition nearly of the monaftery, mentioned by Mr. Mgor- 

 CROFT, and which I conclude to be fituated on the weftern bank of the 

 lake, but as Manfarovar is ftated to be of an eliiptical (hape, and to have 

 its diameters equal to eleven and feven miles refpedively, it feems at 

 leaft probable that the latitude and longitude, I have given will fall 

 fomewhere within the hmits of the lake itfelf efpecially if it be remem- 

 bered, that the place at which my information was obtained, is not fo 

 much as twenty miles diftant from Manfarovar* 



All the Tartars and Thutias who were with me were of opinion, 

 that the eafteni defcent of Tadacot Ghdti vas not greater than the wes. 

 tern, and hence we may conclude that the elevation of the lofty ta jle 



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