SAMGYAL (Caves at)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caverns apparently of great capacity, high up in the rock, penetrated into its interior, and from the mouths of some of them streams of fine sand [note 1] were trickling like water. The rock was in some places of a black colour, veined apparently with quartz: in others it was stratified, and consisted chiefly of clay slate (MOORCROFT & TREBECK 1841, 1: 223). SITUATION (compare the -cavitiy- at –>Kiung): Beyond (north and west) of the pass Lacha or Lacha-lung (note 2) at Sum-ghi-el or Sumghiel (note 3), a place short (approximately south) of the shepherd's station Ruk-chu (note 4) on the way from Kullu (Himachal Pradesh) across Rohtang Pass, Pangi Valley, Bara Lacha La, Tsarap Lingti (river), Rumtse and Upshi to Leh.Caverns apparently of great capacity, high up in the rock, penetrated into its interior, and from the mouths of some of them streams of fine sand [note 1] were trickling like water. The rock was in some places of a black colour, veined apparently with quartz: in others it was stratified, and consisted chiefly of clay slate (MOORCROFT & TREBECK 1841, 1: 223). SITUATION (compare the -cavitiy- at –>Kiung): Beyond (north and west) of the pass Lacha or Lacha-lung (note 2) at Sum-ghi-el or Sumghiel (note 3), a place short (approximately south) of the shepherd's station Ruk-chu (note 4) on the way from Kullu (Himachal Pradesh) across Rohtang Pass, Pangi Valley, Bara Lacha La, Tsarap Lingti (river), Rumtse and Upshi to Leh.