1 258 SUR—SUT.
2 Poolajee to Kahun, and admits the passage of guns, as in August,
3 1840, the British force which marched over it to attempt the re-
4 lief of Kahun was provided with three pieces of artillery. The
5 summit of the ridge is dreary, rocky, and devoid both of vegetation
6 and water. Surtaf is in lat. 29° 11’, long. 69° 5’.
7 Ms. Survey Map. SURWOD.—A village situate on the northern frontier of
8 Cutch Gundava, on the circuitous route from Bagh to Kahun.
9 Lat. 29° 21’, long. 68° 30’.
10 SUTLEDGE.—See Suruus.
11 SUTLUJ.—The most easterly of the rivers of the Punjab. It
12 does not appear that its source has been visited by any European,
13 in consequence of their vigilant exclusion by the Chinese, within
14 whose territory itlies. Moorcroft, in his journey to Manas Saro-
15 1 As. Res, xil.473, vara,! seems to have approached nearest to the source, having,about
16 J tour in the ‘at. 31°, long.80° 40’, come upon the Sutoodra or Sutluj. Lloyd?
17 Himalaya, i. 184. and Gerard, who with Moorcroft nave done more for the geography
18 of this region than any others, give the following account : ‘‘ The
19 most remote source of the Sutluj is said by my informants to be
20 3 Gerarl, Koona- at a place named Chomik Tongdol,3 where a small stream gushes
21 ee out of the ground and runs into Goongeoo Lake. This place
22 must be very much elevated, for, allowing a moderate fall for the
23 river, it will come out 19,000 or 20,000 feet more than Lake
24 Man Sarowur, which I think I have pretty good data for esti-
25 mating at 17,000 above the sea.” This spot is, in the map of
26 the authors just quoted, placed in lat. 31° 5’, long. 81° 6’, and
27 appears to be on the south side of the Kailas, or ‘‘ Peaked
28 Mountain,” on the north of which the Indus is thought to have
29 4 Moorer. Punj. its source.4 From this point it takes its course to Rawan Hrad,*
30 2 ae Rea vv, $09, 0F Goongeoo Lake, situate close to that of Manas Sarovara,
31 Pies levelsof and supposed by some to receive its waters. It subsequently
32 ; issues from the north-western extremity of this lake, being there
33 6 Gerard, Koona- in the dry season thirty feet broad,® and takes a north-westerly
34 war, a7 course of about one hundred and fifty miles, through a country of
35 awful and even terrific sublimity, as far as Nako, in lat. 31° 50,
36 long. 78° 36’. Close to this it receives the river of Spiti from
37 7 Jour, As.Soe, the north-west.? Above the confluence, the Sutluj is seventy-
38 pec can ence five feet wide; its bed 8,600 feet above the level of the sea.
39 Kunawur, 047. Gerard observes, “‘ It is not easy to form an estimate of the water
40 Hloydand Gerard, contained in the Sutluj, for although the breadth can be deter-
41 mined, yet within the mountains there is scarcely a possibility of