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SAM—SAT : ROUTES 182, 183.

SAMARKAND, routes to and from, sec
K6KAND to BOKH/(RA, No. 111.

Route

from SANCHU to KÎLIAN,
see No. 109.

Route

from A SASSAR to DÎSKIT,
see No. 64.

Route No. 182.

From Q SASSAR (Ndbra) to the KARAKORÛM PASS (Ladak-Turkistan).

There are two different routes: the one exclusively used in summer, the other in winter.

A.

A Scissor to the Karakoram Pass.
Summer Route.

A principal route, passable for horses.

Literature: Thomson's Western Himalaya, pp. 402-42.

Maps: Cunningham's Pânjab and Western Himalaya.Thomson's sketch-map of the route from Ndbra to the Karakordm pass, in his " Western Himalaya." — Waugh and Thuillier's Panjab and adjoining countries.

Sûssar, 35° 8'; 77° 30'; 15,339 ft., at the northern foot of the Sâssar pass — Cross the Shayôk river— Ascend an affluent of the Shayôk river (road very bad and difficult; . the river must be crossed, during certain periods of the year, more than 20 times) — Q Frillalc (15,027 ft.).

0 Mac rg di (15,448 ft.)—Ascend along the watercourse of the Kissilâb (the river must be repeatedly crossed)—Pass a large spring (16,382 ft.) —Q Bicrze.

z. Chôngil Dane Akse (15,869 ft.) — Ascend the water-course of the Kissilib, which must be crossed and re-crossed repeatedly—Ascend to the Dapsang plateau (17,500 ft.), the highest in the world as yet known—Cross the Shayôk river (here extremely small)—Q Chajôsh Chilga.

Dc ulat Beg Ulde (16,597 ft.), at the southwestern foot of the Karakorfun pass.

B.

A Sassar to the Karakoram pass.
Winter Route.

Impassable in summer on account of the swollen state of the Shayôk river, up which this route leads.

Literature: izzet Ullah, in Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Vol. III., 1825, p. 114.

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Scissor, 35° 8'; 77° 30'; 15,339 ft., ,at the

northern foot of the Sâssar pass —Yârtobe.

A Chongtdsh (fzzet Ullah's Chung Tash).

v Karatccsh.

A Khumdan (fzzet Ullali's Khamdan).

A G ycipshan (fzzet l'illah's Yapchan).

A Bard nysa.

Karakoram pass, 35° 46'.9; 77° 30'.412 ;

18,345 ft.

Route

from A SkSSAR to LEH, see No. 123. ,

Route No. 183.

From SATGARH (Kämaon) to ASKÖT (Kâmaon).
A principal route, passable for horses.

Literature: Year-book of the Pânjab for 1854, part II., p. 116.

Maps: Indian Atlas, sheet 66.