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CHUMBI VALLEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHUMBI VALLEY , a valley connecting See also:

TIBET, or THIBET

Tibet (q.v.) with the frontier of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India. Lying on the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern slopes of the Himalayas at an See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of about 9500 ft. above the See also:

sea, the valley is wedged in between See also:

BHUTAN

Bhutan and See also:

SIKKIM

Sikkim, and does not belong geographically but only politically to Tibet. This was the route by which the British See also:

MISSION

mission of 1904 advanced. Before the date of that expedition the valley had acquired a reputation for beauty and fertility, which was subsequently found to be only See also:

COMPARATIVE

comparative in relation to the barrenness of the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the Tibetan frontier. The summer months, though not hot, are relaxing and enervating.

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