1847.] On the Aborigines of the sub-Himalayas. 1239 



say 1000 to 1300 years, and that I prefer the remoter period, because 

 the transit was certainly made before the Tibetans had adopted from 

 India the religion and literature of Buddhism, in the 7th and 8th cen- 

 turies of our era. This fact is as clearly impressed upon the crude 

 dialects and cruder religious tenets of the sub-Himalayans as their 

 Tibetan origin is upon their peculiar forms and features, provided these 

 points be investigated with the requisite care ; for superficial attention 

 is apt to rest solely upon the Lamaism recently as imperfectly imported 

 among them, and upon the merely exceptional traits of the mixed and 

 varying Tibetan physiognomy, which is likewise their' s in all its original 

 incongruity. That physiognomy exhibits no doubt, generally and 

 normally, the Scythic or Mongolian type (Blumenbach) of human 

 kind ; but the type is much softened and modified, and even frequently 

 passes into a near approach to the full Caucasian dignity and beauty of 

 head and face, in the same perplexing manner that has been noticed in 



Dexya Casada, 19,570 Gosainthan vel Dayabhang, .,, .. 24,700 



Deseabesado, 21,100 Kanchan Jhinga, 24,000 



Chimbarazo, 21,441 Chumalari, 26,000 



N. B. Of the Hemalayan heights the 2 first are Webb and Herberts; the 2 last 

 Captain Waugh's (not precisely fixed and verbally communicated); the 5th or Gosain- 

 than, Colebrooke's. 



Hemalayan Peaks. 



Names. Positions. 



Nanda Devi. Alpine Gangetic basin (Bhagarati, Pinder, 



Kuphini.) 



Dhavala Giri. Alpine basin of Gandak, West end, Nar- 



raini. 



fAlpine basin of Ghandak, East end, Tri- 



sul. 



Gosainthan. «^ Alpine basin of Kosi, West end, Sun Kosi. 



| Impends the high land between basins of 



1^ Gandak and Kosi. 



Tr , ,, S Alpine basin of Tishta, West end, Bomchii. 



Kanchan J hinga. ^ A j pine basin of Kosi> Eagt en(J> Tam var# 



Chumalari Alpine basin of Tishta, East end, Painoni- 



chu. 



N. B. Chumalari is detached and stands on the plateau of Tibet. Its relation to the 

 Sub-Hemalayan basins and water sheds is questionable, whether as stated above or as 

 stated any way. And with regard to the other peaks it is observable generally that they 

 do not so much impend the bosoms or centres of basins as their extremities, thus form- 

 ing the water shed between 2 basins, as Gosainthan between the Gandaks (7) and the 

 Kosis (7) and Kanchan between the Kosis and the Tishtas— feeders of each ; for all the 

 rivers exhibit radiations or Deltas in the Sub-Hemalayas, though single streams in the 

 plains and the space radiated over forms in each case the basin. 



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