1862.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 209 



4. From Major J. L. Sherwill, an account of a visit to Kuneh- 

 injinga. 



Dr. Simpson read this paper to the meeting, and exhibited some 

 photographic views of places mentioned in it. 



The paper will appear in one of the forthcoming numbers of the 

 journal. 



Captain Montgomerie presented to the Society a memorandum on 

 the geographical positions of the principal cities and towns of Eastern 

 Turkistan, and exhibited a photograph by Lieutenant Melville from 

 the field sheets of the Kashmir series, shewing the glaciers of the 

 Shigar valley on a scale of four miles to an inch. 



After explaining that the positions in Turkistan were derived en- 

 tirely from Great Trigonometrical Survey data and materials collected 

 on the Hindustan side of the Mustak and Karakorum passes, Captain 

 Montgomorie proceeded to read some notes on the Brahma, Kun and 

 Nun, Zanskar, Mustak and other glaciers. 



He pointed out that as he had anticipated in his former memoran- 

 dum, these glaciers have proved to be of the most gigantic size, so 

 large, indeed, that compared with them the glaciers of the Alps must 

 be reckoned as of the second order. 



The glaciers surveyed by Capt. Montgomerie's party maybe divided 

 into those of the Himalayan and Mustak water-sheds. The glaciers 

 of the Himalayan water-shed can boast of a large number varying 

 in length from five to fifteen miles, the lai'gest being the Drung-Drung 

 glacier of fifteen miles, and there are others over eleven miles in 

 Zanskar, the Brahma glacier of eleven and a half miles in Wurdwun 

 and the Purkutsi glacier of seven and a half miles in Sooroo, besides 

 a multitude of minor glaciers. The Purkutsi gunri or glacier is 

 perhaps the most remarkable of the whole of this group, as it comes 

 tumbling down in a torrent of broken and pinnacled ice from near 

 the summit of the Kiin peak which rises upwards of 23,000 feet 

 above the sea, a sight well worth looking at, though in actual length 

 the glacier is somewhat inferior to others in the neighbourhood ; it 

 makes up for the want of length by the large mass of ice that is 

 visible from one spot. 



The next group of glaciers referred to by Captain Montgomerie 

 was that of the Mustak, consisting of those in the Saltoro and Hushe 

 valley around the splendid peaks of Mashabrum, and his neighbours 



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