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AM. Jour. Sct.—Secoxp Sexres, Vor. XXXVI, No. 110.—Mancu, 1864. e 
Mineralogy and Geology. oe 
ner mentioned. If they would look at the map of the Himalayan moun- 
tains, one of the most remarkable things they would observe on th 
southern side of the chain was, that there were no great lakes whatever 
—not one that would compare with Lake Lugano, or wit of the 
second or third-rate Jakes in the Alps. But, if they crossed to the north- 
ern side of the chain, where the temperature was much co during 
export from Thibet, and it was invariably found in connection with hot 
springs. Within the last twenty years, a remarkab 
place, The late Count Larderelle, an original-minded and eminently 
lating that, at no very remote period of time, a plateau in the Hima- 
at the only rational solution which science could suggest was 
that, within a comparatively modern period, a period closely trenching 
Upon the time when man made his appearance upon the earth, the Hima- 
-Tayas had been elevated 8000 or 10,000 feet. 
