a town of Northern India, on the left bank of the Sutlej, which is here 100 yards broad when the water is lowest. Its elevation is 1465 feet above the level of the sea, and the situation is exceedingly picturesque.

Mr Forster, who visited the place in 1788, found the houses well and regularly built of stone and mortar, and the streets all paved, though roughly; but in 1820, according to Moorcroft, the town was in a ruinous condition from having been twice plundered by the Ghorkas. The traveller last mentioned effected the passage of the river in the vicinity of Bellaspoor, by means of the musuk or float composed of inflated skins. His party consisted of 300 persons, with sixteen horses and mules, and 150 tons of baggage and merchandise. Thirty watermen, each managing a skin, conveyed the whole across in about an hour and a half. Bellaspoor is the chief place of the hill state of Kuhloor, and the residence of the rajah. Long. 75.50. Lat. 31.19. (E.T.)