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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SPITI , an extensive See also:

minor See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of See also:

KANGRA

Kangra See also:

DISTRICT

district in the See also:

PUNJAB

Punjab, See also:

India. See also:

AREA

Area, 2155 sq. m.; the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population (Igo') being only 3231, all Buddhists. It consists of an outlying Tibetan valley among the See also:

EXTERNAL

external ranges of the Himalayas, which has a mean See also:

ELEVATION

elevation of 12,981 ft. and contains on its See also:

BORDERS, THE

borders many peaks over 20,000 ft. and one in the See also:

OUTER

outer Himalayas of 23,064 ft. in See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude. Spiti originally formed See also:

PART

part of the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom of Ladakh, and came into the hands of the See also:

BRITISH

British in 1846. The See also:

RIVER

river Spiti rises at the converging See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

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 See also:

SUTLEJ

Sutlej after a course of 120 M.

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