SPITI  , an extensive

minor division of Kangra district in the Punjab, India . Area, 2155 sq. m.; the population (Igo') being only 3231, all Buddhists . It consists of an outlying Tibetan valley among the external ranges of the Himalayas, which has a mean elevation of 12,981 ft. and contains on its borders many peaks over 20,000 ft. and one in the outer Himalayas of 23,064 ft. in altitude . Spiti originally formed part of the kingdom of Ladakh, and came into the hands of the British in 1846 . The river Spiti rises at the converging angle of the Kamzam and outer Himalayan ranges at a height of 20,073 ft., drains the whole valley of Spiti, and falls into the Sutlej after a course of 120 M .