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ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON 



limit of cultivation is reached not only for this region, but probably 

 for the world. 



On May i and 2 the lake was entirely covered with pale-green 



or steel-blue ice, the 



only exception being 

 some large cracks 

 and a marginal strip 

 20 to 200 feet wide, 

 where ducks, geese, 

 and gulls fished mer- 

 rily most of the day, 

 though obliged to sit 

 disconsolate for the 

 first hour or two each 

 morning, when even 

 the open strip was 

 frozen. On the night 

 of May 2 a violent 

 wind blew from the 

 northwest. Next morning, though the temperature was 22° F., the 

 ice had entirely disappeared from the center of the lake for 8 or 10 

 miles, although the ends were still closed. Part of the ice lay piled 

 along the shore in a 

 ridge 8 or 10 feet high 

 and 30 or 40 wide 

 (Fig. 4). Elsewhere 

 it had been shoved 

 upon the gently slop- 

 ing beach in large 

 sheets, one of which, 

 from 2 to 4 inches 

 thick, remained un- 

 broken to a size of 

 1 5 by 40 feet (Fig. 5). 

 Later I saw a thinner 

 sheet in the act of ^ * r •, r t j , , • ,• • • , 



Fig. 3. — A family of Ladaknis living in the outlet 

 COmmg ashore. Un- valley about 10 miles below Lake Pangong. 



Fig. 2. — A little glacier southwest of Lake Pangong, 

 above the village of Man. The latter can be seen on 

 the right lying on an old moraine at the foot of the 

 mountain. 



