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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 346 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHARI  , a

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town of
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Tibet . It is supposed to be the highest and coldest town in the
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world, being 15,000 ft. above the
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sea . As it commands the road between the Chumbi Valley and
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Lhasa and also one of the
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chief passes into
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Bhutan, Phari is of considerable military importance, and is defended by a large fort or Jong, which was occupied by the
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British expedition of 1904 . Phari Jong is supposed to have been built about 1500 A.D., and was enlarged or rebuilt in 1792, under
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Chinese
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advice, as a
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defence against the British . It has the
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appearance of a
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medieval
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castle, and seems to have been built in
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imitation of the
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European
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style .

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