RUDOK  , a small See also:

• TOWN

town on the Ladakh frontier of See also:

• TIBET, or THIBET

Tibet, through which all the See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade of Tibet passes to See also:

• LEH

Leh, and at which is maintained the See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese'outpost that for many years persistently interfered with See also:

• EUROPEAN

European exploration . Rudok is picturesquely situated on the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill See also:

• STANDING

standing isolated in the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain near the E. end of See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Pangong, across which the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official boundary between Tibet and See also:

• KASHMIR, or CASHMERE

Kashmir runs . The houses are built in tiers, whitewashed and walled in . At the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of the hill are a large See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace and several monasteries painted red . About a mile away from the See also:

• FOOT

foot of the hill is another monastery . Rudok is about 13,300 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level, and the greatest See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude on the route connecting it with See also:

• LHASA (LIIASSA, LASSA, " God's ground ")

Lhasa at the pass of Mariom la (the See also:

• WATER

water-parting between the See also:

• BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra and the See also:

• SUTLEJ

Sutlej) is 15,500 ft . The See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter See also:

• CLIMATE

climate of Rudok and of all the towns of the Tsangpo See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin, owing to the intense dryness of the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air and the See also:

• LIGHT

light fall of See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow, seems to be bracing and exhilarating rather than severe . The thermometer never approaches the minimum See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of Puetra (in the same See also:

• LATITUDE (Lat. latitudo, latus, broad)

latitude and at See also:

• HALF

half the See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation), according to the observations of native surveyors .