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2 TABLE' LiUND Gt TIBET.
3 dary of Iliiidostan and Caubul, we mufit lodk fivther.noidi for ihe
4 ridge liiai terminates the natmaL dMalon, in which thoae.oouiitriei
5 are situated, and containa the remoteat aouzcea of their greateatriTCora.
6 Our geographers lay down a fange of mountauia under the name
7 of Mns Tag, which aeema to oommeace to the north of the eastern
8 extremity of Hemalleh, and to run paraUel to that numntain on the
9 north, as fir as the sixty-seventh degree of east longitnde.
10 The inquiries made on the Ckubul miaaion, have tiaoed but a small
11 part of the extent of this diain. LAeutenant Macartney could follow
12 it with certainty no fitfther than from Auksoo to the west of Leh, or
13 Ladauk, but the reaming part of its alleged course is probable, and
14 thom^ I have not access to the proofs of its existence, I have no
15 reason to doubt it ; I shall, therefore, take that part of the chain finr
16 granted, and include it in the namp of Mooz Taugh. *
17 Though this mountain stands on hio;licr ground than Hindoo
18 Coosh, its height i'ram its base, and perhaps the absolute elevation of
19 its summits, are inti rior to those of the hitter mountain.
20 It is in the southern side of Mooz Taugh, tliat the Indus appears
21 to have its source, and on the opposite side the waters run north into
22 Chinese Toorkistaun.
23 The slope of the countries on each side of the mountains, is pointed
24 out by the direction of the streams ; but on the north, the descent,
25 «a far at leaat aa my inlbnnation goes, is generally gradual and unin-
26 terrupted: while, on the aouth, (iiere is a table land beneath Moo*
27 Taugh, which ia supported by Hemalldi and Hindoo Gioah, and
28 from which the deseent is oomparativdy sudiden mto the plama of
29 Hindostan, and of the north cmHtom part of the Gmbul dominions.
30 The medium breadth of this Table Land may be about two hun-
31 dred milea, but I have before said that I hsTe no mfoimation about
32 it eaat of the meridian of Ladauk. The eastern part of it ia oocnpied
33 by the extensile country of Tibet; weat of which are Little Tibet
34 * 'Diis term, which in Turklsl! signifies ice-hill, is appli«?<l to onr plnrr in t>if range at
35 Ittist, where it m occasioned by a glacier uear ihe rotui Irum Varciuid tu Laudauk. Tliis
36 tmge^ oraiMrtiGiibrpassini^iiMrdMnMd jwtnMtte Is «dl lawmiaToiMlM»
37 t«m b!f the mm* of .KaRflMcimiiii. .
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