Journey to- Lake Mdnafarovara in Unfits \ a Provina 



of little Tibet* 



By WILLIAM MOORCROFT, Esq, 



JNTRODUCTORT NOTE BY THE 



HAVE .much gratification in being enabled to lay before the Society^ 

 an extract from the journal of our colleague, Mr. Moorcroft, on a 

 journey to explore that part of little Tibet* in Chinefe Tartary, where the 

 fhawl goat is paitured; and to vifit the celebrated lake Mdnafardvara 

 or Mapangt in which the Ganges was long fuppofed to take its fource. 



Undertaken from motives of publick'zeal, to open to Great Britain 

 means of obtaining the materials of the fined woollen fabric, the ardu- 

 ous and perilous enterprize, in which Mr. Moorcroft accompanied 

 by Captain Hearsay engaged, and which was profecuted by them with 

 indefatigable perfeverance and admirable intrepidity, undifmayed 

 by the difficulties of the way and the dangers with which the jealoufy 



