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LACHOONG VALLEY. 



Chap. XXI. 



largest ; and the loftiest of them terminates in a conical 

 hill crowned with JBoodhist flags, and its steep sides cut into 

 horizontal roads or terraces, one of which is so broad and 

 flat as to suggest the idea' of its having been cleared by art. 



Abies Smithiana. Larch. Abies Brunoniana. 



LOFTY ANCIENT MORAINES IN THE LACHOONG VALLEY, LOOKING SOUTH-EAST. 



On the south side of the Tunkrachoo river the moraines 

 are also more or less terraced, as is the floor of the 

 Lachoong valley, and its east slopes, 1000 feet up.* 



* I have since been greatly struck with the similarity between the features of 

 this valley, and those of Chamouni (though the latter is on a smaller scale) 

 above the Lavanchi moraine. The spectator standing in the expanded part below 

 the village of Argentiere, and looking upwards, sees the valley closed above by 

 the ancient moraine of the Argentiere glacier, and below by that of Lavanchi ; and 

 on all sides the slopes are cut into terraces, strewed with boulders. I found traces 



