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by Colonel Waugh, director of the trigonometrical survey of India, 

 is 28178 feet, and its eastern summit 27826 feet high, according 

 to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Nov. 1848 : The 

 mountain which is now supposed to be higher than the Dhawalagiri 

 is figured on the frontispiece of the magnificent work of Joseph 

 Hooker entitled " The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya, 1849." 

 Determination of the lower limits of the snow-line on the northern 

 and southern declivities of the Himalaya ; its height being on an 

 average 3400 to 4600 French, or 3620 to 4900 English feet higher 

 on the northern face. New data on the subject from Hodgson. 

 Without this remarkable distribution of temperature in the upper 

 strata of the atmosphere, the mountain plains of Western Thibet 

 would be uninhabitable to the millions of human beings who now 

 dwell there. 85101 



The Hiong-nu, regarded by Deguignes and Johannes Miiller as a 

 tribe of Huns, appear rather to have been one of the widely scat- 

 tered tribes of the Turks of the Altai and Tang-nu mountains. The 

 Huns, whose name was known to Dionysius Perigetes, and who are 

 noticed by Ptolemy as Chuns (whence the later appellation of 

 Chunigard given to a country !), are a Finnish race of the Ural 

 mountains 101102 



Figures of the sun and of animals, and other signs carved on rocks 

 in the Sierra Parime, as well as in North America, have often 

 been supposed to be writing 102 104 



Description of the cold mountain elevations between 11000 and 

 13000 (or 11720 and 13850 English) feet, which are distinguished 

 by the appellation of Paramos ; character of their vegetation. 



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Notices of the two groups of mountains (Pacaraima Mountains, and 



