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variety of form as their enormous height, were the 

 Himaleh Bahn, an isolated column of scarped rock 

 12,000 feet high, the crest of which is covered with 

 eternal snow; St. George, 21,256; St. Andrew, 

 20,428; St. Patrick, 21,392; the Pyramid, 

 20,060, to the eastward ; Mount Moriah, 21,386 ; 

 Gog, 21,639 ; Magog, 20,279 ; and nine other 

 peaks, names unknown, of the Jaunli and Bad- 

 rinath ranges, to the southward. Rising over the 

 dark tops of a long range of intervening ridges 

 towards the west, rose a barrier of intensely white 

 snowy peaks, which one of the Puharees informed 

 me was the Bunderpouch, over Jumnautree, the 

 source of the Jumna. Although the distance to 

 some of these peaks from where we stood must 

 have exceeded forty miles as the crow flies, yet the 

 air was so transparent that their outlines were most 

 clearly and sharply defined. From this point we 

 had a very extensive view of the valley of the 

 Ganges, now and then getting a glimpse of the 

 river itself, as, like a silver thread, at a vast depth 

 below us, it wound along from the east, and then 

 took a southernly direction towards the plains. 



