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ZOOLOGY or INDIA. 



even bears, or musk-deer, or eagles, or any living creature, except some 



small birds. ^ , _^ 



" To form an idea of the imposing appearance of -a snowy peak, as 

 seen here under an angle of elevation of nearly 33'-\ and when its dis- 

 tance is not qnite three miles, and vel its hcighl 8052 feet above the sta-_ 

 lion one should reflect, that if, even when viewed from the plams ot 

 Hindostan, at angles of elevation of one and one and a half degrees, 

 these peaks, towering over many intermediate ranges of mountains, in- 

 BPire the mind with ideas of their grandeur, even at so great a distance, 

 —how mucli more must they do so when their whole bulk, cased m snow 

 from the base to the summit, at once fills the eye. It falls to the lot of 

 fow to contemplate so magniticent an object as a snow-clad peak rising 

 to the height of upwards of a mile and a half, at the short horizontal 

 distanceof only two and three-quarter mi[es."—.Iournal of a Siirvey 

 to the Heads of the Rivers Ganges and Jumna. By Captain T. A. 

 Hodgson. 



