ABSTRACT
On the seventeenth of May, 1715, when the snow began to melt and the roads became practicable, we left the city of Kascimir, and only reached the end of the hilly but pleasant and fertile and well populated district of Kascimir on the twenty-ninth. We then found ourselves at the foot of a very high, steep, and formidable mountain called Kantel, on whose summit is the boundary between Kascimir and Lesser Thibet, called in Persian Khoval [Kalan] Thibet, in Hindustan Ciota [Chota] Thibet (both words bearing the same meaning) and called by the inhabitants “Baltistan”.
