274 Scientific Intelligence. 
referred to that part of the range which bounded the valley of the Indus 
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e north, the Kara-Korum, or Mooz-tagh, or the “Iey range of 
mountains,” and the other great series of them were the mountains which 
bounded the Indus upon the south. Although the glaciers upon the Shi- 
gar valley and in the valley of Bialdoh, which he himself had visited in 
1838, were of such surpassing grandeur and importance, as had been 
mentioned by Sir Roderick Murchison, it was but fair to say that upon 
the northern side there were glaciers which, so far as description went, 
were equally grand, if not grander. Those to which he should especially 
refer were the glaciers at the head of the Zanscar river. Mr. J. A. Arrow- 
smith was well acquainted with the mountain-ridge to which he referred 
and the glaciers which arose from it. There was a river called the Che- 
ciers extending from a very great distance, and having enormous width, 
and which, until the description that had been given by Capt. Austel, 
had been unrivalled by any glacial phenomena with which they were ac- 
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the Himalayan chain so remarkable that he should take the rags $ 
the numerous lakes which jutted pel from the Alps into the plain of Italy. 
Commencing on the west theré were the Lago d’Orta, the Lago ™a f 
di Lugano, the Lago di Como, the Lago d’[seo, and te Lago of 
Garda; in fact, wherever a great valley projected itself from the chain 0 
the Alps at right angles to the strike of the chain, there was, See = 
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