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Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3 | |
インドおよび高地アジアへの科学調査隊派遣の成果 : vol.3 |
AKS—ALM : ROUTES 3-4.
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Route No. 3.
From AKSAE CHIN (Turkistân) to A S1 MGAL (Turkistan).
A secondary route, passable for horses.
No villages occur along this route, which is never used by caravans. Fuel and grass wanting at several encamping grounds and scarce all along the route.
0 S imyal, 36° 8'; 78° 5' (13,215 ft), a fine pasture ground, with a good supply of fuel.
ALM6RA, various larger routes from, see under NAINITÂL.
0 Aksde Chin, 35° 52'; 77° 51'; 16,620 ft., the name of the basin of a lake, periodically filled with water; scarcely any grass or fuel—Follow the Karakash river.
Encamp on its banks; (the valley slopes exceedingly gentle; no fuel or grass)—Descend the Karakash valley to the salt lake Kink-Kiô1.
Xiûk- Ki ô l (15,460 ft.), where grass is to be found and scanty fuel; but a large supply of the dung of wild animals, dispersed all along the shores of the lake, can be collected and used as fuel. Though the stage is a long one, it will be found desirable to make it, as otherwise no grass or fuel will be procurable—Descend the Karakash river; one mile below the lake Kink-Kiôl pass a large number of fine hot springs (15,010 ft.).
Route No. 4.
From ALMÔRA (Kâmâon) to BÂGESAR (Kiimion). A principal route, passable for horses.
Road partially made; in some parts bad, but never difficult for horses.
literature: Madden, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XVI., pp. 226-34.—Tables of Routes and Stages, p. 55.—Yearbook of the Piinjâb for 1854, part II., p. 118.
Maps: Indian Atlas, sheet 66.—Strachey's Kiimaon and Giirhvâl.
Encamp on the banks of the Karakdsh river; fuel and grass extremely scarce Cs Kafir Dera (14,420 ft.).
A B a s h m a l y d n. (14,207 ft.), on the Karakâsh river. Fuel plentiful, grass very scarce—Descend the Karakâsh valley.
A Sikdndar Mokdm (13,864 ft.) Here are traces of a small fort now entirely deserted and in ruins—Descend the Karakâsh valley.
Encamp on the Karakdsh river—A great many salt-pools are passed—Grass and fuel now begin to become more abundant—Descend the Karakash valley.
Almdra, 29° 35'.2; 79° 37'.96; 5,546 ft.—Road branches off to the left for the tea-plantations at Havalbagh (see Route No. 6)— Shor—Cross the Jak nalah (road till here very good)—Steep descent (very stony) — Ascent to a dharamsala (road stony), and to the Pinsholi pass—Descent —Tâkula, 5 hours' march from Almôra; a fine encamping ground under large fir-trees; an old pagoda in the environs—Cross the Karenjar Jina pass—Matela —Tsauna — Road branches off to the left to Biluri — Cross the Palori pass A dharamsala, near which a tepid spring — Cross the Gnmti river by bridge.
Bdgesar, 29° 47'; 79° 45', with a bangalo, (2,730 ft.); four and a half hours' march from "Takula. From Almôra to Bagesar is a very long and fatiguing march.
Route
from ALMÔRA to NAINIT.kL, see No. 150.
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