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EAST NEPAL. 



Chap. XT. 



beyond which was another moraine, 250 feet high, and 

 parallel to it a third gigantic one. 



Ascending the great moraine at a place where it over- 

 hung the main river, I had a good coup-ami of the whole. 

 The view south-east up the glacial valley— (represented in 

 the accompanying cut)— to the snowy peaks south of 

 Junnoo, was particularly grand, and most interesting from 



ANCIENT MORAINES IN THE KAMBACTIEN VALLEY. 



the precision with which one great distant existing glacier 

 was marked by two waving parallel lines of lateral 

 moraines, which formed, as it were, a vast raised gutter, or 

 channel, ascending from perhaps 1G,000 feet elevation, till 

 it was hidden behind a spur in the valley. With a telescope 

 I could descry many similar smaller glaciers, with huge 

 accumulations of shingle at their terminations ; but this 

 great one was beautifully seen by the naked eye, and 

 formed a very curious feature in the landscape. 



