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fragments of veins ; in one instance, white quartz with mica, 

 hornblende, and garnet ; in another actinolite with quartz, mica, 

 and garnet. 



Between Namgia and Shipke, where the survey eastward 

 terminated, and where the bed of the river is 9,000 feet above 

 the level of the sea, the rocks are composed of granite with and 

 without tourmalin and garnets, gneiss, mica slate, compact 

 quartz, cyanite with quartz and mica, and compact feldspar 

 with hornblende. 



North of the Pass of Shipke-ghate, is situated the Tarhigang 

 Mountains, which Lieutenant Gerard ascended to the prodi- 

 gious height of 19,411 feet above the level of the sea, and 

 within two miles of the top, which is estimated at 22,000 feet. 

 The rocks here lie in immense detached masses heaped upon 

 one another. 



One specimen of whitish primitive lime-stone, and another of 

 granite with tourmalin and garnet, which were found at this 

 station, have been preserved. The R61 or Shatul pass over the 

 Himalaya Mountains, by which the surveyors returned from 

 their arduous journey, is nearly 15,000 feet high. The rocks 

 at the summit of this pass consist of gneiss, and the pass on 

 each side, rising to an elevation of nearly 3,000 feet more, 

 appear to be formed of the same materials. On descending on 

 the southern side from the R61 Pass, at the height of 12,000 

 feet above the sea, the rocks are found to be generally com- 

 posed of gneiss ; and on the northern side, the prevalent rock 

 was ascertained to be granular quartz. 



Seeds of a species of campanula were gathered at the eleva- 

 tion of 16,800 feet above the sea, on a spot where the thermo- 

 meter at noon in the middle of October, was at 27° Fahr. 

 Shrubs were found in a vegetating state, at a still greater 

 altitude. 



7. On the Tape'Worm in the Pointer and Spaniel, by Captain 

 Bagnold. — Sir, on an estate where a great quantity of rabbits 

 are annually destroyed in the month of November, I have ob- 

 served that several dogs who were previously in good health 



