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RUDOK

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUDOK  , a small

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town on the Ladakh frontier of Tibet, through which all the trade of Tibet passes to
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Leh, and at which is maintained the Chinese'outpost that for many years persistently interfered with
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European exploration . Rudok is picturesquely situated on the side of a hill
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standing isolated in the plain near the E. end of Lake Pangong, across which the official boundary between Tibet and Kashmir runs . The houses are built in tiers, whitewashed and walled in . At the top of the hill are a large palace and several monasteries painted red . About a mile away from the
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foot of the hill is another monastery . Rudok is about 13,300 ft. above sea-level, and the greatest altitude on the route connecting it with Lhasa at the pass of Mariom la (the
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water-parting between the
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Brahmaputra and the
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Sutlej) is 15,500 ft . The winter
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climate of Rudok and of all the towns of the Tsangpo basin, owing to the intense dryness of the air and the
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light fall of snow, seems to be bracing and exhilarating rather than severe . The thermometer never approaches the minimum record of Puetra (in the same latitude and at
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half the absolute
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elevation), according to the observations of native surveyors .

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