the Kingdom of Thibet. 47 r 
In breadth to the confines of Great Tartary, and perhaps 
to fome of the dominions of the Ruffian empire. Mr. 
bogle fays, that having once attained the lummit of 
the Boutan mountains, you do not defcend in an equal 
proportion on the fide of Thibet ; but, continuing ftill 
on a very elevated bafe, you traverfe vallies which are 
wider and not fo deep as the former, and mountains that 
are neither fo heep, nor apparently fo high. On the 
other hand, he reprefents it as the moh bare and defolate 
country he ever faw. The woods, which every where 
cover the mountains in Boutan, are here totally un- 
known; and, except a few draggling trees near the vil- 
lages, nothing of the fort to be feen. The climate is 
extremely fevere and rude. At Chamnanning, where 
he wintered, although it be in latitude 3 1 0 39', only 8° 
to the northward of Calcutta, he often found the ther- 
mometer in his room at 29 0 under the freezing point by 
Fahrenheit’s fcale; and in the middle of April the 
handing waters were all frozen, and heavy fhowers of 
fnow perpetually fell. This, no doubt, muft be owing 
to the great elevation of the country, and to the vah 
frozen fpace over which the north wind blows uninter- 
ruptedly from the pole, through the vah defarts of Si- 
beria and Tartary, till it is hopped by tins formidable 
wall. 
The 
