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their visit to the Trans-Himalayan chain of Kuenluen, may be 
looked for at an early day. Notwithstanding the jealousy with 
which this expedition has been regarded in England,* there is 
eason to believe that. it will make important additions to our 
knowledge of that region. 
In Petermann’s Mittheilungen, 1856, p. 104, there is an outline 
_ Map of the route which the brothers followed. Robert Schlagint- 
weit pave, before the British Association in August last, a brief 
sketch of the journey, which is thus reported in the Athenzeum: 
In 1854 they reached India, and passed from Bombay to 
Madras through Central India, each by different routes, malting 
geological, geographical, and other scientific investigations as 
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 aachegg leaving Sikkin, Hermann, having examined part of 
Hostin, the Himalayas, and Upper Assam, returned to Calcutta, 
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As Small rise in the surface of the valley. They then went to 
at and having encamped on a glacier there, at the 
ag ight of 19,220 feet, on the evening of the 18th of August, 
po * See Athen., Feb. 6, 1858. 
