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2 which render the road through it difficult. Lat. 33° 46’, Jong.
3 68° 27’.
4 LORGURKARA, in Bhawlpoor, a village on the route from 5.1.C. Ms. Doc.
5 Khanpoor to Subzulcote, and twenty-six miles north-east of the
6 latter place. Lat. 28° 22’, long. 70° 5’.
7 LOSUR,' in Ladakh, a village of Spiti, is situate near the‘! afoorer. Punj.
8 confluence of the Losur river with the river of Peeno. It is 3" *
9 the last inhabited spot which travellers find in ascending
10 course of the latter river, and has an elevation of about 13,400
11 feet.2 Above this part of the valley, through which the river ? As. Res. xviii,
12 flows, the mountains rise in mural cliffs so steep that no snow Gea ens
13 can rest on their faces, though it lies deeply on their tops, ef ue
14 which are for the most part flattened, forming table-lands. The ,
15 general character of the soil and atmosphere is excessive aridity,
16 but in some places patches of fertility, at the bases of the decli-
17 vities, are rendered productive by means of irrigation. “’On
18 one of these slips is situated the village of Losur, and the
19 appearance of this singularly secluded place, as described by
20 Gerard,’ is far from repulsive. ‘‘ Lofty as the level of Losur is, es Res, xviii,
21 there is little in the landscape to betray its position, when viewed
22 in summer, embosomed in flourishing crops, and herds of shawl.
23 wool goats. Yaks and horses meet the eye upon the high accli«
24 vities of the mountains, and an ardent sunshine keeps the air
25 looming from the effects of mirage.” The inhabitants are
26 Tibetans or Tartars of the Mongolian type, and their complexions
27 are darker than in the low and sultry plains. When the ground
28 is covered with snow, their black figures contrast strikingly and
29 somewhat grotesquely with the dazzling whiteness of the eurface
30 on which they move. Losur is in lat. 32° 8’, long. 78° 5’.
31 LOSUR, a small river of Ladakh, is formed by the junction Moorer. Punj.
32 of two streams, the one flowing in a south-easterly direction from saiaaaii
33 the Parang La Pass, the other north-easterly, from the range
34 which, on its farther or western side, sends numerous feeders to
35 the Chinab. Lower down, the Losur river receives, near the
36 village of Losur, a stream called the Pin, or Peeno, and thence-
37 forwards is generally known by the name of the river of Spiti,
38 which, after a further course of about fifty miles, generally in a
39 south-easterly direction, falls into the Sutlej close to Numgeea,
40 in lat. 31° 48’, long. 78° 38’.
41 LUGGAREE, in Sinde, a village on the route from Hydera- u.1.C. Ms, Doe.