An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

,suppliedTIBET. 407or near the bank. The waters of the lake rise and fall very little, beingby a constant and unvarying source, neither augmented bythe influx of any current, or diminished by any stream running fromit. The lake, I was assured, is at least twenty miles in circumference,and, standing in a very bleak situation, is frozen for a great part ofthe year. The people employed in collecting these salts, are obligedto desist from their labour so early as October, on account of the ice.Tincal is used in Thibet for soldering, and to promote the fusion ofposes, in Thibet, Boutan, and Naphaul.gold and silver. Rock-salt is universally used for all domestic purjThe tliermometer at Tissoolumboo, during the month of October, wason an average, at eight o'clock in the morning, 38°; at noon, 46°; andat six o'clock in the evening, 42° :the weather clear, cool, and pleasant,and the prevailing wind was from the southward.November, we had frosts morning and evening ;During the month ofa serene clear sky, nota cloud to be seen.The rays of the sun, passing through a medium solittle obscured, had great influence.The thermometer was often below30° in the morning, and seldom above 38° at noon, in the shade;wind from the southward.Of the diseases of this country, the firstthat attracts our notice, asAve approach the foot of the hills, isa glandular swelling in the throat,which is known to prevail in similar situations in some parts ofEurope, and generally ascribedto an impregnation of the water fromsnow. The disease being common at the foot of the Alps, and confinedto a tract of country near these mountains, has first given rise tothe idea of its being occasioned by snow water. If a general view of