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Route No. 3.

From △Aksáe Chin (Turkistán) to △Súmgal
(Turkistán).

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.

△ Aksáe 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 Karakásh river.

Encamp on its banks; (the valley slopes ex-
ceedingly gentle; no fuel or grass)—Descend
the Karakásh valley to the salt lake Kiúk-Kiöl.

Kiúk-Kiöl (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 other-
wise no grass or fuel will be procurable—
Descend the Karakásh river; one mile below
the lake Kiúk-Kiöl pass a large number of
fine hot springs (15,010 ft.).

Encamp on the banks of the Karakásh
river; fuel and grass extremely scarce—
△ Káfir Déra (14,420 ft.).

△ Bashmalgún (14,207 ft.), on the Karakásh
river. Fuel plentiful, grass very scarce—Descend
the Karakásh valley.

△ Sikándar Mokám (13,864 ft.) Here are
traces of a small fort now entirely deserted and
in ruins—Descend the Karakásh valley.

Encamp on the Karakásh river—A great
many salt-pools are passed—Grass and fuel now
begin to become more abundant—Descend the
Karakásh valley.

△ Súmgal, 36° 8′; 78° 5′ (13,215 ft.), a fine
pasture ground, with a good supply of fuel.

Almóra, various larger routes from,
see under Nainítál.

Route No. 4.

From Almóra (Kumáon) to Bágesar (Kumáon).

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.—Year-
book of the Pánjáb for 1854, part II., p. 118.

Maps: Indian Atlas, sheet 66.—Strachey's Kumáon and
Gárhvál.

Almóra, 29° 35′·2; 79° 37′·98; 5,546 ft.—Road
branches off to the left for the tea-plantations
at Havallágh (see Route No. 6)—Shor—Cross
the Jak nálah (road till here very good)—Steep
descent (very stony)—Ascent to a dharamsála
(road stony), and to the Pínsholi pass—Descent
—Tákula, 5 hours' march from Almóra; a fine
encamping ground under large fir-trees; an old
pagoda in the environs—Cross the Karenjár Jina
pass—Mátela—Tsáuna—Road branches off to
the left to Biluri—Cross the Pálori pass—
A dharamsála, near which a tepid spring—
Cross the Gúmti river by bridge.

Bágesar, 29° 47′; 79° 45′, with a bángalo,
(2,730 ft.); four and a half hours' march from
Tákula. From Almóra to Bágesar is a very long
and fatiguing march.

Route
from Almóra to Nainítál,
see No. 150.