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sions of my deep regret that it is only possible to present some 

 fragments of our results. Yet, enough I trust appears to encourage 

 my contemporaries in mountain-travel to continue similar researches, 

 laborious and unthankful though they may be ; gradually to amass 

 such a body of evidence as will in course of time render no longer true 

 the dictum of my illustrious predecessor; and will permit it to be said, 

 instead, that high-mountain explorations, although perhaps of little 

 interest to the general public, are of great value to Science. 



EDWARD WHYMPEE. 



