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ance, on this occasion, Native and European, was, we understand, 

 very encouraging in number and respectability, and very many held 

 commissions from stations near and remote, far exceeding in amount 

 the quantity exposed for sale. We have not access to the records of 

 the sale ; but from the information of our correspondents, we are in- 

 duced to beheve that the price has advanced about a third on that 

 of last year. Notwithstanding an extremely dry and unfavourable 

 season in Kuraaoon, we hear that the produce of 1848, under the 

 arrangements of Mr Jameson and his assistants, is likely to triple 

 that of 1847. — Mountain Monitor, published at Simla, in the N. W. 

 of India, 



17. The Himalayan Alpine Land. — The vast limitary range of 

 snows to the north of India, has been known in all ages by names 

 derived entirely from Sanscrit, the Greeks and Romans neither coin- 

 ing fresh appellations nor even translating the sense of the Indian 

 ones into their own languages, but adopting almost unaltered the 

 Sanscrit names they found. These are Hemachal, Hema-achal, 

 snowy mountain ; Hemadri, Hema-adri, the same ; Hemalaya, 

 Hema-alaya, pZace of snow; Hem6daya,Hema-udaya, som'ceo/snoii/; 

 (as Suryodaya, source of sun or East). From the last term the Greek 

 CEmodus is deduced without alteration. The following tables, shew- 

 ing the relative height of the great Andean and Himalayan peaks, 

 and the connection of the latter with the physical geography of 

 northern India may prove interesting, since no one but myself I be- 

 lieve is in a position to note the connection of the snowy peaks with 

 the distribution of waters quoad the eastern half of this magnificent 

 theatre of nature's vastest display. 



Andean Peaks. Feet. Himalayan Peaks. Feet. 



Sorato, 25,400 Nanda Devi, 25,749 



Illimani, 24,350 Dhavala giri, 27,060 



Desya cassada, 19,570 (Grosain than, 24,700 



Descabesado, 21,100 Kanchan Jhinga, 24,000 



Chimbarazo, 21,441 Cholo, 26,000 



Himalayan Peaks, 

 Names. Relations. 



No known peak, Basin of the Indus, Alpine Paunjab. 



N.„da Bevi (above Rohi.Uhand), { ^ '^^^^:^, 



(Alpine Karnalic basin. East end. 

 Alpine basin of Gandac, West end. 

 Naraini. 

 Gosainthan vel Dayabhang (above the / Alpine basin of Gandac, East end. 



valley of Nepal), < Trisul. Alpine basin of Cosi, West 



I end, Sun Cosi. 



(Alpine Basin of Cosi, East end, Tam- 

 var. Alpine basin of Tishta, West 

 end, Bomchu. 

 (Alpine basin of Tista, East end, Pai- 

 norachu. Alpine basin of Monas, 

 West end, Bar61i. 



