1847.] Glaciers of the Pindur and Kuphinee Rivers. 797 



latter evidently made by the separation of regularly stratified layers. 

 The last thing that might be expected of such a dismal-colored and 

 monotonously rounded hill, is that it should be composed within of the 

 purest ice. 



The cliffs that form the immediate bounds of the valley where the 

 Glacier lies, are of no great height ; but the mountains of which they 

 are the foot, rise many thousand feet above them, though with much 

 monotony of appearance. Many grassy slopes are still seen consider- 

 ably above the Glacier ; but bare rock and snow much predominate, 

 and are soon left in sole possession of these inhospitable regions. Two 

 peaks* which rise, one to the N. East and the other to the N. West of 

 the valley, probably to a height of 20,000 feet above the sea, are fine 

 objects in themselves, and the frozen snow on their summits shines 

 gloriously in the sun : but they are not sufficient to prevent the 

 general impression from the scene being one of disagreeable monotony, 

 and of desolation complete indeed, but without sublimity. 



The Glacier is formed by the meeting of two ice streams, from 

 gorges, one coming from the north-west and the other nearly from 

 the east, which meet about 2 miles above the source of the river. 



The feeder from the north-west is larger than that from the east, 

 and its surface is at a considerably higher level, for some hundred 

 yards below their first junction. — It descends with a great inclination, 

 entirely filling the gorge down which it comes, in what Professor 

 Forbes aptly terms a cascade of ice. It assumes the general appear- 

 ance of a confused mass of irregular steps, which are again broken up 

 transversely into peaks of every shape. The west side of this cascade 

 continues nearly in its original direction, after having passed the point 

 A, (see the sketch) below which the Glacier bends sharply to the S. 

 W., and in this way completely crosses the Glacier. The steps iu 

 which it falls however also gradually change their direction, so as to 



* The peak ou the N. West is the most easterly of the three smaller peaks, which are 

 seen from Almorah below Nunda Devee. That on the N. East, is the point at the 

 end of the range that descends from Nundakot to the North, and appears on its left from 

 Almorah. Between these peaks is the pass called after Mr. Trail, over which he went 

 into Joohar, or the valley of the Goree. It is perhaps rather gratuitous to call this passage 

 a pass, as no one has gone over it since, and certainly never will go unless from curiosity. 

 To the right of the N. E. peak is another depression in the range, over which, I was 

 told Mr. Trail attempted to go but failed. 



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