94 STEPPES AND DESERTS. 



My statements respecting the mean height 

 of the Snow-line in the Himalaya. (Asie 

 Centrale, torn. iii. p. 326.) 



Paris feet. Eng. feet. 

 Northern declivity 15,600 . . . 16,626 

 Southern 12,180 . . . 12,981 



Difference 3,420 3,645 



Extremes according to Dr. Joseph 

 Hooker's letter. 



Paris feet. Eng. feet. 

 Northern declivity 18,764 . . . 20,000 

 Southern " 14,073 . . . 15,000 



Difference 4,691 5,000 



The local 'differences vary still more, as may be seen from the list 

 of extremes given in my Asie Centrale, t. iii. p. 295. Alexander 

 Grerard saw the snow limit ascend, on the Thibetian declivity of the 

 Himalaya, to 19,200 Parisian feet (20,465 English); and on the 

 southern Indian declivity, Jacquemont once saw it, north of Cursali 

 on the Jumnotri, even as low as 10,800 Parisian (11,510 English) 

 feet. 



(") p. 28. "A brown Pastoral Race, the Hiongnu." 

 The Hiongnu (Hiong-nou), who Deguignes, and with him many 

 historians, long considered to be the Huns, inhabited that vast region 

 of Tartary which is bounded on the east by Uo-leang-ho (the present 

 Mantschu dominion), on the south by the Chinese wall, on the west 

 by the U-siiin territory, and on the north by the country of the 

 Eleuthes. But the Hiongnu belong to the Turkish, and the Huns 

 to the Finnish or Uralian race. The nortfiern Huns, a rude pastoral 

 people, unacquainted with agriculture, were dark brown (sunburnt) ; 

 the southern Huns or Hajatelah (called by the Byzantines Eutha- 

 lites or Nepthalites, and dwelling along the, eastern shore of the 

 Caspian), had a fairer complexion. The latter cultivated the ground, 

 and possessed towns. They are often called the white, or fair Huns, 

 and d'Herbelot even declares them to be Indo-Scythians. On 

 Punu, the Leader or Tanju of the Huns, and on the great drought 

 and famine which about 46 A. D. caused a part of the nation to 

 migrate northwards (see Deguignes, Histoire ge*n. des Huns, des 

 Turcs, &c., 1756, t. i. pt. i. p. 217 ;. pt. ii. pp. Ill, 125, 223, 447). 

 All the accounts of the Huns taken from the above-mentioned 

 celebrated work, have been subjected to a learned and strict exami- 

 nation by Klaproth. According to the result of this research, the 

 Hiongnu belong to the widely diffused Turkish races of the Altai 

 and Tangnu Mountains. The name Hiongnu, even in the third 



