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3 river is not yet euo^y ascertained. The stream is traced with cer-
4 tainty only to the neighbourhood of Draus, a town in Little Tibet,
5 which Lieutenant Macartney places in longitude 76 ' 48', and latitude
6 35 ' 55*. The main strenm comes to this point from the north of cast,
7 hut its course higlK r up is unknown. At the point nbo"\ e Dr.niH just
8 meiitioued, the mam stream is met by a smaller hrauch whkh ha»
9 been traced from Rodauk in Tibet, a distance ot two hundred and
10 fifty miles. It passes near Ladauk, the c apital of Little Tibet, irom
11 which it is callod the river of Ladauk. it is joined near that citv by
12 aiiudier .'.uearn from the north-west, which Mr. Macartney coujecLures
13 to issue from the lake of Surickol. I have, howe\'er, been informed
14 by an Uzbek of Ferghamia, that a stream issued tVoiii a glacier in
15 Mooz Taugh, on the road between Yaurcund and Ladauk, and that
16 he followed it from the glacier to near Ladauk, without noticing the
17 jimetMm of any conridenble atieim bom ihe westmu-d ; by Us ks
18 <XNiiit, tlmefiife^ the mer has its soiin» hi diis ^ader $ and though
19 I do not think his. infinnnatiea to be oompased to that aequiied fay
20 I limtflnant Macartnty» yet it may ^fnefid to stateit on so abscue a
21 point.
22 It occasiiimed great regret to Mr. Mscaitney, that he ivas not able
23 to.fiz the somoas of the Indus} but if we consider the desotete die-
24 laeter of tiie oounby thxou^ whicfa that riyer nms, before it enten
25 A%baimlstBun, we shaU find aooie season to be smprised at the suo«
26 oeas with which he haa traoed the early part of its ootnrpe^ than at his
27 Mure in discovering its remotest spring.
28 His discovery regaiding the course of the river of Ladauk is a
29 point of great intefest* and ^e coincidence between his informadoa
30 forty miles longer than that of the Elbfl^' and- otiy dxty less than timt of the BUbcu
31 Pvr n the river of Kashkmir i^: eighty miles longer thm the Pn ; ami the AbboflOeo, thfl
32 Kisurruin, the Gooaul, and the Swati, are none of tbem much inferior in length of ooufM
33 l» As Tksdwii tkwgh tbty axu Among ||ie mtUm of fbm vmn tfuS gonfribntf ip
34 ■tMorniftisdM.