1 16 LAH.
2 Zeman Shah, invested with the government of Lahore, with the
3 title of Rajah. He immediately manifested his determination to
4 possess the substance as well as the ensigns of power, by ex-
5 pelling Nee Sikh sirdars, who attempted to retain possession,
6 and he thenceforward made it one of his favourite places of
7 residence. Lahore is in lat. 31° 36’, long. 74° 14’. 3
8 } Burnes’ Rep. of LAHOREE BUNDER,! in Sinde, a village on the south or
9 ee me left bank of the Buggaur, or western branch of the Indus, twenty
10 miles from the Pittee mouth. When visited by Alexander
11 24 New Acc. of Hamilton,? in 1699, it was the principal port of Sinde, being
12 re East-Indies accessible for ships of 200 tons burthen, and at the close of the
13 last century it was the seat of an English factory. It has since
14 fallen to decay, in consequence of the contiguous channel having
15 ceased to be navigable. Lat. 24° 31’, long. 67° 24’.
16 LAHOUL, or LAWUR, in the north-east of the Punjab, is a
17 small territory bounded on the north by Ladakh, east by Kulu,
18 south by Burmawur, and west by Kishtawar. It is about sixty
19 miles in length, and forty in breadth, and probably contains two
20 thousand square miles. It is situate in lat. 32° 35’/—33° 20’,
21 long. 76° 30-—77° 30’. This territory is surrounded by lofty
22 mountains, the Ritanka Pass on the south, having an elevation of
23 'Moorer.Punj. thirteen thousand three hundred feet,! and the Bara Lacha Pass,
24 sr a on the north-west, sixteen thousand five hundred ;? some peaks
25 oe ae in the vicinity rising a thousand feet higher, and being covered
26 xviii, 275,Gerard, With perpetual snow. Lahoul is traversed by innumerable tor-
27 AEs sed the rents, the feeders of the Surajbhaga and the Chandrabhaga, the
28 junction of which forms the river Chenaub. The elevation of the
29 whole territory must be very great, as Kishtawar, above a hundred
30 miles lower down the course of the rapid Chenaub, is more than
31 3 Vigne, Kashmir, five thousand feet above the level of the sea.? There are no
32 ass towns in this secluded tract, the only collections of habitations
33 being two small hamlets, one called Gosha, the other Tandi,. both
34 situate close to the confluence of the Surajbhaga and Chandra-
35 bhaga. Notwithstanding the elevation of the surface, good
36 crops of grain are produced. The inhabitants, a Tartar race, are
37 on his return to Peshawur, which he reached on the 30th of January, 1799.
38 His guns were lost in the Hydaspes, on his return, by a sudden rising of the
39 river; but they were afterwards dug out, and restored by Runjeet Singh and
40 2 Ace. of Caubul, Saheb Singh.?
41 572,