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of range afier range of inosculating stony terraces, with a little herbage, 
amongst which the Lachen river meanders ive hundred feet farther 
we found ourselves at the top of a long flat ridge, connecting the north- 
West extreme of Kinchin-jow with Chomoimo,—at stood the 
Indian face of the Himalayan range, at below 15,000 feet,—on the 
Thibetan (northern) slope at above 16,000! I felt greatly delighted, 
and made a hasty sketch of the surrounding scenery :—somewhat 
rude, for at this great elevation my temples throb, and I retch with 
sickness. 
Just above 15,000 feet all the plants are new; but the moment you 
reach the table-land nine-tenths of them disappear. Plants that are 
ly, and the views of the great mountains already named rising perpe ndic- 
ularly exceeded any that I ever beheld. For 6,000 feet they rise sheer 
up and loom through the mist overhead ; their black wall-like faces patch- 
ed with ice, and their tabular tops capped with a bed of green snow, prob- 
ably from 200 to 300 feet thick. Southerly down the glen the moun- 
tains sunk to low hills, to rise again in the parallel of the great chain, 
twenty miles south, to perpetual snow, in rugged peaks. We stopped 
again at Peppin’s tent for refreshment, and | again took horse. My 
