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had not gone-' as- far -as. I .ordered him to do. To fettle this matter,. 

 the .fame, harkxrah, and' H^R Bpo, the young pundit,- were. directed, to 

 proceed as far as, the fouth weft corner. Athalfpaft eleven at night/. 

 they-. re turned much fatigued and fu fFe ri ng from 1 he cold— They nated,„ 

 that they had gone beyond, the fou*,h- wefl corner and within 500* , 

 paces of thz s Kit/tina , river on. the fouth fide, without finding, , any, 

 appearance of .a river iflhing. from the, lake, or. of any former bed, 

 of a river which had, efeaped, from-.it,- The -diflance of the Lamas- - ; . 

 houfe from, our encampment was 352ifpac.es;. from the former place, 

 to, the, foot . of; dhe< mountain, . from .the top of ..-which ■ .1 .made. my. 

 furvey, 22500 paces,: th- v went 5000 paces-farther v , making Lathe whole, 

 2.16.21 pa>ces J or, about eijht-een E«£/y$ miles; which doubled by their re- 

 turn, made their day's journey thirty-fix miles T According to their cal- 

 culation, my journey con fiileid.of twenty -four miles: but a4ding..the erofv 

 fing of the h ills, -it may. fairly. bee ftimated at three, more. The., di fiance 

 altogether is but trifling ; yet the circumftanc§s of my weaknefs from pre-i 

 vious i.Mnefs, the badnefsof the, road, be jrjg; benighted,- &$> rendered its 

 performance. very diftreffing. — However^ the fa 61 of Mdnjardwar giving, 

 rife, to. .no large river has been . ascertained hy it* .The old ..pundit re-' 

 mained much d-iflaifcfied wtfh the deci(ion v and a Lataki traveller affert- \ 

 ed, that eight years ago the ftream, which he mentioned, actually exifled ? 

 and that it fincc that period ..dried up a and the bed has. filledo Perhaps ■ 

 an earthquake may, have been the .agent in this. efFeft. . I believe the 

 period a ffig.ned tallies with that which was fo mifchievous at Sirinavar^ 

 and might have extended to ..this place 



Mansa-^owar or Mapang, of which we had no means of afcertainin^ 

 by aftronomical observation, the exac"t geographical fituation, i$ bound-, 

 sd on the fouth by the great Himalaya, which pours its liquified fnow 

 into.;i?s .baJjn ; on, the Eafl by a prolongation of the Cailds ridge; ancl \ 



