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(Ooroonasse) is not so certain; but Benares, in the present day, seems 
to have the highest claim to their respect and veneration. 
The absence of the Regent, had now restored me to comparatively 
greater freedom, and left me at leisure to gratify my curiosity, by a 
more minute examination of the neighbourhood of Teshoo Loomboo. 
Here, therefore, I shall throw together, without any strict regard to 
methodical arrangement, some of the most important observations I 
was, at this time more particularly, enabled to make, respecting the 
state of the country around me, and the customs and opinions of its 
inhabitants. 
Teshoo Loomboo, or Lubrong, the seat of Teshoo Lama, and the 
capital of that part of Tibet immediately subject to his authority, is 
situated in 29° 4' 20" north latitude 15 , and 89° 7' east longitude, from 
Greenwich. It is a large monastery, consisting of three or four hundred 
houses, the habitations of the Gylongs, besides temples, mausoleums, 
and the palace of the sovereign pontiff; in which is comprised also, 
the residence of the Regent, and of all the subordinate officers, both eccle¬ 
siastical and civil, belonging to the court. It is included within the 
hollow face of a high rock, and has a southern aspect. Its buildings are 
all of stone, none less than two stories high, flat roofed, and crowned 
with a parapet, rising considerably above the roof, composed of heath 
and brush-wood, inserted between frames of timber, which form a 
b From the medium of six meridian altitudes of the sun, taken with a brass sextant 
and artificial horizon, both of Ramsden’s. 
29° 4 20" N. Lat. of Teshoo Loombo. 89° / E. Long, of Teshoo Loomboo. 
22 35 -- Calcutta. 88 35-Calcutta. 
6 29 20 North from Calcutta. 
32 East from Calcutta. 
