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0130 Southern Tibet : vol.2
Southern Tibet : vol.2 / Page 130 (Color Image)

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As a general rule embracing all the lakes of Ngari, Strachey regards the fact
that none of them can ever have been much fuller than they are now, or 100 ver-
tical feet. In this respect he should have found a great difference between them and
the lakes of the interior plateau-land, where certain lakes, as Lakor tso, have been
up to 430 feet higher than now. The Ngari lakes, he says, are never found below
14,000 feet. »Those with an effluence are invariably freshwater, those without it
invariably salt.»

In his monograph, Strachey has given a good characteristic of the two famous
lakes, which he calls, in Tibetan, Tso Mapham and Tso Langak or Oma Tso, i. e.
Milk Lake. He believes that the spur of low hills between them consists partly of
alluvial material projecting from the foot of Gurla. Both have purest fresh water.¹
His description of the hydrographical situation of the much debated lakes is very
good indeed, and Strachey clearly understood that he had to do with a periodical
phenomenon.