Chai)ter VII. 



from Stulilniaim's diagram, became later on. as we sliall see, one 

 of the chief causes of confusion in the attempt to colkte the 

 view of the chain from the east with Stulihnanu's description 

 of the chain as seen fmni the west. 



>n'. SI'AXl.EV FllOM THE WEST, ElluM A I'lH iTi MaiAI'lI TAKKN IN THE 

 BUTAtir VALLEY 1!Y PK. F. STllILMANN. 



By the kind permission uf Dr. Stulihnann and liis puhhshers 

 we are able to reproduce the very interesting and fine engraving 

 which faces p. 188 of his hook, and was made from a })hoto- 

 graph which he took from the highest point reached hy him in 

 the Bntaa'U Vallev, a hill 13.32G feet al)ove the sea. and 

 separated from the glaciers by a depression containing a littlt^ 

 lake. In the seipiel, we shall hear of the excursit)n made liy 

 Sella on the glaciers of the western slojje, descending from the 

 col in tiie centre of Mt. Stanley between Moebins Peak and 

 Alexandra Peak. In the cour.se of this exciu-sion he was able 



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