Lake is 100 miles long by 30 broad. Several large towns are in the immediate vicinity of the lake, as Tabreez, with apopulation of 100,000, and Ooroomiah, with 40,000.
Thnyong Lakes in Tibet aro a series east of Noh. Lake Tengrinor or Namehu is 15,000 or 16,000 feet above the sea. Dangra-Yum-Cho is 45 miles long and 25 miles broad ; and Kyaring-cho, 40 miles by 8 to 12 broad.
T o Gam, in Eastern Ladakh, in Tibet, is a salt lake, 14,580 feet above the sea, and in lat. 10' N., and long. 78° 34' E.
illanasarorvara, or Tso Mapan, is a salt lake, lat. 30° 8' N., long. 81° 53' E., in Gnarl Khorsum, about 15,250 feet above the sea.
Tso Mitbal, in Pangkong, in Tibet, is a salt lake, in lat. N., and long. 78° 40' E., and is 14,167 feet above the sea.
Tso Mognalari, in Pangkong, in Western Tibet, is a salt lake, in lat. 33° 39' 48" N., and long. 38' 30" E., and 14,010 feet above the sea. It is about 120 miles long from E. to W.
Tso Moriri, in Rupchu, in Western Tibet, is in lat. 32° 45' 24" N.. and long. 78° 16' 36" E., and 15,130 feet above the sea.
Lake Van is 4000 feet above the sea-level, and has an area of 1200 square miles.
Chonto Doug Lake, in Tibet, is 20 miles long and 16 broad, and is 14,700 feet above the sea.
Issyk-Kul Lake is amongst the mountains bordefing between Central Asia and China.
Kashmir Lake is near the capital. Its shores have an unrivalled loveliness. The gardens on the northern aspect have been there from the time of Jahangir, and to the south is the Takht i-Suliman, with the fort of Srinuggur on its summit. The lake is everywhere shallow, its water of a brilliant blue colour and great purity, with numerous long water plants and grasses waving beneath the surface, and on its surface are numerous rand or floating gardens, consisting of wood rafts fixed by poles and covered with earth, and cultivated with flowers.
Yaindok-cho is the famous ring lake of Palti, shown' on D'Anville'a map. Pandit Nain Singh, C.I.E., who visited it in 1866, reported the water to be perfectly fresh. He was told by a man who had made the circuit of the lake for rick° ' (that is, the making a journey for cleansing from sin and sloth), that the circuit of the lake took 15 days. The lake may be put down as having a circumfer ence of 100 miles. The great iron chain bridge over the Sanpo river, between the Yamdok-cho and Lhassa, is called Chazumtuka, the small monas tery at the south entrance to the bridge is called Chazumehori. The bridge is formed of four iron chains, two on each side. From the chains are suspenders of rope carrying the footway, which only allows of one passenger crossing at a time. During the rains the bridge is not in use on account of its northern end being separated from the shore by a wide stretch of water ; then the river is crossed in boats. The neighbouring villages support the monastery and maintain the bridge as payment of their revenue. The chains are stretched very tight, and are fastened off by wrap ping round huge bollards of wood built into the masonry of the piers. The width between the piers is 300 paces. The chains are formed of loops of Iron a foot long, the diameter of the iron rod forming the loops is only one inch.
Yunnan fn Lake, in China, is 6380 feet above the sea.—Buisex Catalogue ; Col. Dixon ; Land. As. Trans. iii. 181 ; As. Joan. xvii. 372; Tod's Rajasthan, i. 389, ii. 627 ; Russians in Central Asia; Capt. Valikhanof and M. Vemukof; Strachey.