On the 8th of September, Dr. Gerard crossed the
Faralasa chain, at an elevation of 16,500 feet, and
traced the Sooruj Baga (which the party had been


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following) to its source, in a lake only 300 feet
lower. Dr. Gerard remarked, ' that its surface was
at its extreme ebb ; thus almost verifying Moorcroft's
similar observation respecting Mansarowar, a fact
which Mr. Colebrooke and reviewers were puzzled at,
and actually discredited ; but it would appear that
the lakes, at least in the Trans-Himalaya regions,.
