tb? 'Kingdom of. Thibet, ' 48’ t 
lie. had received that way, particularly^ graham’s re- 
peating watch, which’, kkl been, xliifcly-’ as they . laid, . for 
■tome time. While he was: there, feveral Mongols and 
Galmucs arrived from. Siberia, with whom he converfed. 
The city of Lab. ail a, which is the capital, is of no incon- 
fiderable iize, and is reprefented as populous and fioit- 
rilhing. It is the refidenee of the chief officers of go- 
vernment, and of the Ghinefe mandarins and their fuite-. 
It is alfo inhabited by Chinefe and Gaffemirian mer- 
chants and artificers, and is the daily refort of number- 
lefs traders from all quarters, who come in occafional 
parties, or in ftated caravans. The waters of the Great 
River, as it is emphatically called in their language, wafh. 
its walls. Father duhalde, with great accuracy, traces 
this- river, which he never fufpedts to be the Baram- 
pooter, from its origin in the Gaffemirian mountains 
(probably from the fame fpring which gives rife to the 
Ganges) through the great valley of Thibet, till, turning 
fuddenly to the fouthward, he lofes it in the kingdom of 
Aflam; but ftill, with great judgement and probability of 
conjecture, fuppofesit reaches the Indian feafomewhere 
in Pegu or Aracan. The truth is, however, that it turns 
fuddenly again in the middle of Aflam, and, traverfing 
that country wefterly, enters Bengal towards Ranga- 
matty, under the above-mentioned name, and thence 
Vo L. LX VII, Rrr bending 
