A GREAT GLACIER. 



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tions made by tlie guardians, to show tlie impossibility of 

 this course, and were induced to climb the great hillside 

 which rose steeply on our right. We soon reached the 

 level of the mists, and in half-an-hour had left them far 

 below us, and were enjoying unclouded sunshine. 





Peak in the Tcherek Valley. 



After a long and severe climb of 3,000 feet, up grassy 

 slopes broken by crags and ravines, and covered in places 

 with Caucasian rhododendrons, we gained the brow of a 

 spur, whence we had a panorama of the ranges surrounding 



