Chapter VII. 



from Stulilnianiis diagram, became later on, as we shall see, one 

 of tlie cliief causes of confusion in the attempt to collate the 

 view of the chain fi-om the east with Stnlilmanii's description 

 of the cliain as seen from the wt^st. 







:\rr. staxlev from the west, from a piiOTotatAi-ii iakkx ix thk 



r.UTAC.U VALLEY F.Y nit. F. STIIILMAXX. 



By the kind permission of Dr. Stulilni;mii and his publishers 

 we are able to reproduce the verv inteit'srniu- and tine eniiravino- 

 whicli faces |). 188 of liis l)ook. and was made from a plioto- 

 grapli which he took from the liighest point reached by liim in 

 the Butagu Valley, a hill 13.-"5"2() feet above the sea, and 

 separated from the glaciers bv a de])ression containing a little 

 lake. Ill tilt' se(pi('l. we shall hear ol' llie exciU'sion made bv 

 Sella on tlie glaciers of the western slope, descending from the 

 col ill the centre of Mt. Staidey between Moebius Peak and 

 Alexandia Peak. In tlir course of this excursion he was able 



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